Rebecca Jampol

Newark (Digital Images)

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Newark "raw beauty" (Pinhole Images)

Newark, New Jersey is a area which has been viewed as the center of industrial breakdown. It's landscapes consist of broken down factories, abandoned buildings, trash and graffiti. Some view this type of atmosphere negatively. I look at it as a "raw beauty." There is something about broken pipes, fire escapes and rusty bridges that truly captivates me. The pinhole camera's ability to simplify the image only adds to Newark's modesty.

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The Portrait (Pinhole Images)

The images below were taken with a pinhole camera. They are portraits of a graphic design professor at Rutgers-Newark University. The images of Professor Ned Drew are distorted so that his body is in perfect focus, however his head is faded into the background. This distortion creates ambiguity and mystery, resulting in a much more interesting photograph.

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Below is Professor Ned Drew's graphic interpretation of the image.

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Eze Bongo Warrior

"Yes, we are all going to die anyway.
It does feel good that we are going to die anyway.
Knowing that is the case, why are you stressed anyway?
He asked me, "What do I care? It is his life."

-Eze Bongo Warrior, Montserratian Poet

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The Metaphoric Hole (Pinhole, Cyanotypes)

def. hole. an opening of something, a gap, an aperture

How do you define a hole... The first two images are of an empty keg. This keg is my metaphoric hole. Many college students, myself included tend to find themselves in a cycle of binge drinking, thus enabling them to perform in school adequately.

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The below image is one of world through a cracked door. This view emulates the fear that some have concerning what it is that exist on other side of the door. This feeling, and thought process is a "hole" which many fall into.

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Delicate Dumpyards (Digital Images)

This series of digital images was taken during the summer of 2007. The rural countryside is a place which has always fascinated me. While driving through back roads of abandoned farmland, one can tend to feel elated, or as if the are creepy into forbidden territory. In these photographs, I have taken abandoned landscape and juxtaposed it with elements of fantasy.