Portraits and Dreams colour Sensuous in detail and raw

Sensuous in detail and raw in subject

Mark Ruwedel travelled across Los Angeles between 2011-2014

the New Orleans Museum of Art

The photographs are imbued with a foreboding and unease

Broken Manual(2010) and Songbook (2015)

Portraits and Dreams colour Sensuous in detail and rawWhen Wendy Ewald arrived in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in 1975, she began a project that aimed to reveal the lives, intimate dreams and fears of local schoolchildren. Tasked with finding authentic ways of representing the lives of these children, she gave each of them a camera and interviewed them about their childhood in the mountains. Through these intriguing transcripts and photographs, we discover the lives of families as seen through