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DESCRIPTION

Archival ink on museum-quality cotton rag paper | 2022

The newest photography series from James Needham, Traveling Home, reimagines home and travel. While in previous series, the New York-based photographer would remove himself entirely from the images, focusing instead on the structural elements of line, shape, and color, Traveling Home is deeply personal. Each image tells an intimate story of love and longing. The focus on food signage is a nod to he and his wifes love language, and the images of connectionlike a phone booth or a mailboxare symbols of Needhams connection with his wife, whom he missed terribly while on the road creating this series. Photography is typically thought of as a medium that captures one location during a single moment in time, but Needhams process involves combining images of multiple moments and places into one photographtelling a whole story rather than a fraction of one.

Traveling Home showcases some of the artists favorite examples of this practice. In Oceanfront Seating, Needham takes a photograph of Long Beach, California and places it behind a photograph of the Coney Island Boardwalk in New York. And Little Giant Food Market is a combination of two photographs taken in Wildwood, New Jersey with the addition of a seaweed green door photographed on the island of Mallorca. Each photograph in Traveling Home is a deeply personal reflection of love and lonelinessa desire to travel coupled with a need to return home.

DIMENSIONS

12 x 18 inches

24 x 36 inches

30 x 45 inches

40 x 60 inches

FRAMED DIMENSIONS

12 x 18 inches

Matted: 19.5 x 25.5 x 2 inches

Full Bleed: 13.5 x 19.5 x 1.5 inches

24 x 36 inches

Matted: 32 x 44 x 2 inches

Full Bleed: 24.5 x 37.5 x 2 inches

30 x 45 inches

Matted: 38 x 53 x 2 inches

Full Bleed: 32 x 47 x 2 inches

40 x 60 inches

Full Bleed: 42 x 62 x 2 inches

AUTHENTICATION

The work comes with a Certification of Authenticity signed and numbered by the Co-Founder of Tappan