Hannah Whitaker

Created on occasion of Whitaker’s Locust Projects exhibition of the same name and year, Limonene 1 is a print of one of the images utilized in the installation. The exhibition consisted of site-specific photographs printed on vinyl and adhered directly to the gallery walls. Using litter scavenged from Miami streets, Whitaker composed impromptu assemblages, all photographed in one week-long trip in February of 2013. She then re-exposed the film using light leaks—where light makes direct contact with the film—and other experimental in-camera techniques. Whitaker, who frequently makes photographs using unpredictable methods and unwieldy materials, continues to embrace chance in Limonene. Unlike past bodies of work however, the new photographs revolve around the material specificity of one particular place—Miami.

Hannah Whitaker, b. 1980 in Washington D.C. received a BA from Yale University in 2002 and a MFA from the International Center of Photography/Bard College, New York, NY Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Thierry Goldberg in New York and group shows at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris, Higher Pictures in New York, and Rencontres d’Arles in France, where she was nominated for the Discovery Prize. She recently co-edited issue 45 of Blind Spot magazine and co-curated its accompanying exhibition, The Crystal Chain, at Invisible Exports in New York. She is also a contributing editor for Triple Canopy.