Christopher Kulfan is a self-taught photographer who studied philosophy as an undergraduate. Born in New York City but raised in central Pennsylvania, he searches for and creates subjects that blend the natural and unnatural, the uncultivated and manufactured. Two of his projects, “Typing on Jetsam” (seen here) and “The Watchmaker Analogy” series are examples of this juxtaposition.
Since continuing his photographic instruction through the New York Institute of Photography, he continues to seek out new methods and techniques, such as building a hand-made lens crafted out of common household materials that produces the results of a tilt-shift lens. These projects provide a vehicle for him to create a tangible and more accurate representation of his artistic vision.
This photograph, entitled "At the Water's Edge" from his "Typing on Jetsam" series shows those two colliding worlds - the natural and unnatural. Though this typewriter might not be something one would expect to find in the surf at a beach, the idea behind the series challenges that. Jetsam is a part of a ship, or something on it, which has been tossed overboard in order to lighten the load. The idea is then that this typewriter was one of the things, perhaps the first, to go when an old boat and her crew felt the weight of the load they were carrying. When one considers that possibility, the idea of the natural and unnatural becoming one seems much more feasible.
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