Ryan Foerster

"When the hurricane hit Brighton Beach last year about three feet of water submerged the house I rent there. books, records, clothes and about everything else got worse because of it. my photographs got better…this book is mixture of the photographs I took and the ones that went through the flood. " -Ryan Foerster, 2013

The plates, when shown with the photographs, act as this other level of how the work is thought about, where one piece creates the next. All of these elements--photos, plates, found objects--even though they're different physically, all become connected through a narrative of what I'm doing and what I want to remember. Instead of making more stuff from new technologies I'd rather see what the possibilities are from what's left behind, while still using photography as way to document my surroundings and most importantly to remember these things. - Ryan Foerster