Photography and meditation are known to facilitate reflection and
introspection. They teach us to see both the outer world and the
mysterious landscape within. In Nowhere in Place, photographer
Christopher Jordan explores the meeting place between meditation
and photography and how this mirroring of outer and inner worlds
plays upon both the surface of his consciousness and the sensor of
his digital camera. Before Jordan ventures outside to make
pictures, he spends time in quiet meditation. This is an important
process of switching gears from the everyday noise of the cluttered
mind to a more serene state of awareness. This reset allows Jordan
to see the world in fresh ways, appreciating overlooked details
that might escape a mind preoccupied with business-as-usual. The
book starts in Tuscaloosa, where Jordan lives. For many, T-town is
a place of Southern charms and Alabama football, but, for Jordan,
it becomes a visual play of textures, colors, and abstract planes
with nary a person in sight. The pictures reveal a placeless
solitude within the frame of his camera. The book moves west to
Boulder, another college town, where his contemplative eye
continues to fix upon unusual shapes, colors, and textures while
intersecting with an occasional figure. The book reaches full bloom
in India, where the interplay between inner and outer landscapes
knows no bounds, as his camera reveals a kaleidoscopic interplay of
people, places, and things. Within each locale, Jordan photographed
"nowhere" in particular, because, for him, the photograph becomes a
place of its own being: a sanctuary for meditation, a record of
what is seen and heard and felt, an opportunity to see a place and
an image right now. For Jordan, the photograph is a medium of
meditation and transcendence, providing a point of intersection
where one recognizes our shared, common humanity.
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