My artist book, Dumber and Dumb (Edition of 30 + 6 APs), has been selected by juror Willie Osterman for Alternatives 2025: Image as Record, the 15th International Photo Biennial hosted by Ohio University’s MFA Photography and Integrated Media program. The exhibition runs March 3–23, 2025, at Majestic Galleries in Nelsonville, Ohio.
This marks the first public exhibition of Dumber and Dumb since its debut in December 2024. The project—a darkly humorous interrogation of AI’s collision with analog photography—has also recently found permanent homes in two major institutions: the Walker Art Center’s Rosemary Furtak Artists’ Book Collection and the Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Founded in 1978, the Alternatives exhibition series has long been a benchmark for redefining photography’s conceptual frontiers. I’m thrilled to join this lineage of artists questioning how images function as records—of memory, absurdity, and the unstable ground between human and machine authorship.
Juror Willie Osterman, Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, described this year’s submissions as “expanding the possibilities of the photographic medium.” Dumber and Dumb embodies this ethos, using generative tools to rework vernacular photography into a surreal meditation on labor and obsolescence.
Exhibition Details
Alternatives 2025: Image as Record
March 3–23, 2025
Majestic Galleries, 20 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH 45764
Dumber and Dumb is available for acquisition through my studio. For inquiries, contact me >>
