John Brodkin
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John Brodkin, a fine-art photographer based in Silver Spring, is exhibiting a series of photographs titled "Found in the Forest" at Artomatic 2008. John's eye for detail and keen sense of the absurd in daily life produce photographs with a pronounced element of humor and an undercurrent of quiet desperation which he has dubbed “suburban decay.” Frequent subjects include words, garbage, things falling apart, abstractions, odd juxtapositions, composites, and subverted Washington icons.
John studied photography at Harvard University, where he received a degree in philosophy, and at the Smithsonian Institution. His work has been exhibited at galleries throughout the D.C. area and nationally.
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Posted Tue, 04/29/2008 - 2:46pm
Photograph, digital inkjet print
11x14
2008
This is one of a series of "Found in the Woods" photographs I am exhibiting at Artomatic 2008. I came across this egg near a neighborhood park a couple of weeks after Easter. It must have been hidden for an egg hunt but found by a bird instead of a child. The poor bird worked its way through the unusually-resistant shell only to find candy eggs where a yolk should be. The layers of irony in this scenario are, excuse me, delicious.
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