Raymond Meeks (Ohio, 1963) has been recognized for his books and pictures centered on memory and place, the way in which a landscape can shape an individual and, in the abstract, how a place possesses you in its absence. In 2014, a mid-career retrospective of his books -
Where Objects Fall Away - was organized by Light Work in Syracuse, NY. The exhibition featured more than twenty books, including self-published works and numerous volumes from a variety of publishers.
His books are less a box for storing unexamined experience, than a field or vertical plane for examining interior co-existences, as life moves in circles and moments and events-often years apart-unravel and overlap, informing new meanings.
Raymond Meeks lives and works in New York's Hudson Valley. His work is represented in the collections of the
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France, and the
George Eastman House, with recent solo exhibitions at
Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco and
Wouter van Leeuwen in Amsterdam.
His 2018 book
Halfstory Halflife (chose commune) was a finalist for the Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook of the Year Award.
Ciprian Honey Cathedral was published by MACK in Autumn of 2020. Raymond Meeks is a 2020 recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.
Source: www.raymondmeeks.com