Ian Campbell is an artist from Kansas City, Missouri, where he is an MFA candidate in Photography and Integrated Media at Ohio University. He has show his work in different galleries in the USA and this one is in the exhibition located at Trisonlini Gallery, 405 Baker Center, Athens, Ohio. He grew up in homeschooling family with 6 younger siblings. He spent much more time to explore the Midwest landscape when his grandparents gave him a camera, photography quickly became a passion. He study at Wheaton College, Illinois, completed a semester-long program at the New York Center, and received his BA from Wheaton. After graduating, Ian went through a series of unlikely jobs: artist’s assistant, making beaded bookmarks, washing windows, and driving a taxi. …show more content…
In fact, most of the photographs in the show, including this one that I choose for my paper, were taken at locations where people reported seeing a "sea serpent" (a large, unidentified marine animal) in 1817. After reading several historic texts, he was able to figure out where these sightings occurred, and last summer he went to Gloucester, Massachusetts to document these places. This particular picture was taken at Stage Fort Park, where a man named Jonathan Brown claimed to have seen a sea serpent in 1817. This particular picture is an amazing through whole the show. It makes me fell that there are mystery inside it. So through this picture, I can see that there are two people sitting in chairs, looking out at the sea and Ian stood far away from them to take the picture. That seems to me Ian wanted them to be distant in the same way, as the original sea serpent story is distant in time. Moreover, he is trying to make the viewers to wonder what they are looking, imagine themselves in that place, and imagine a sea serpent in the