In his show Photographs with an Audience, Clifford Owens occupies a barren room with some lights, a camera, and his seated audience members. Participant answers to a series of questions determine who will be incorporated in each photograph.
“By plucking members of the audience from anonymity and probing them in front of a white void, Owens brushed aside lifestyle brands to engage both the subject’s actual self and the fear or desire of alternative paths. This catharsis was then transferred to the audience, resulting in a level of empathy counterintuitive to contemporary examples of spectatorship.”
