ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Silver Gelatin Print
Kodak Tri-x 400
Stand Developed
2018
New Orleans, LA

This photograph is the first of a series in progress called "Shut/In." The piece is an indirect internal reference to a subject living in solitude.
A locked jaw, hunched back, and a questionable gender are just a few clues given in this shrouded vignette suggesting conflicts of self image and social aptitude. The transparent cage containing the outsider is less physical and more of a symbolic cerebral refuge from the inescapable reality of the modern zeitgeist.

AUTHOR
A printmaker/photographer whose visual acrobats are achieved primarily through silver gelatin and serigraphy.
He underexposes 35mm film and develops it for hours at a time pushing it's latitude and revealing what light can be found in the dark.

Garrett DeBell escapes the bounds of mundane reality through a surreal lens addressing conflicts of isolation, depression, gender, and urban degeneration. He seeks to unmask the taboo of human emotion, and address stubborn behavioral issues considered to be of the norm.
He is a member of the NOLA Community Printshop collective and had his first solo gallery show 'Nobdody's Shelter' in April 2018.

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