Austin Lucky
Julie Blackmon, "Trampoline"
2003, Pigment Print
This photo is taken from Blackmon's first major body of work, "Mind Games." The series explores childhood play through black-and-white photographs. The photographs focus on both external objects and the internal imagination, the combination from which play is derived. Using her three kids through the collection, she is able to change the mood from a mere documentary to and exploration of the fantastic parts of everyday life. She take the elements of normal life, in this case jumping on a trampoline, and creates a sensation you wouldn't think possible. The different techniques that blackmon uses are very common yet this photo seems very fresh and very spiritual. The silhouette of the boy jumping and perfectly being place in between the two tree formations is something that was well planned and well thought out. Overall I think that this photography speaks to many different people on many different levels and shows how a photo taken at the right spot and in the right moment can really change the way someone thinks of things around them.
