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NATIVES (of the Digital Frontier)
Nearly 160 years after the first ambrotypists traveled in wagons to photograph those living on the fringes of civilization, I travel the new digital frontier of online communities, photographing those paving the way. While the inhabitants (avatars) of these communities and games do not exist physically, they are often able to manipulate and control their online incarnation: creating an abject presence of themselves. This project creates both a tangibility and history to the 'lives' of these inhabitants who, by design, do not know or have either. The ambrotype images make a tangible manifestation of the intangible persona.
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