Dorian Tocker - I'm good, how are u?
Paired in playful conversation with each other, "I’m good, how are u?" is a striking collection of photographs that finds the strange beauty in the decay of the ordinary, revealing the poetry hiding in plain sight. Taken on my phone in cities across the globe, the quality of the images emphasizes the quotidian nature of the subjects–an “unfussed-over” time capsule in the spirit of photographers like Stephen Shore.
“When I was 14, my father died suddenly in his sleep in our Brooklyn home. I stepped outside to soothe my grief, finding the city abuzz that summer morning, the concrete dappled by orange beams of sun pushing through wispy clouds in a sapphire sky. Paradoxically, my pain heightened my awareness of the sublimity lurking in the everyday, to the beauty within the bitterness. Sharing this contradictory experience has been the driving force of my work.”
