on the mediated gaze

Ground Zero, New York City 2008. I was there by chance, as I had been relaxing in battery park photographing some street performers shortly before. When I got there I felt that there was not mush to see. I felt you had to have been there to really see it when it happened. I was thankful I was not there.

Still, not seeing anything through the fence which interested me, I looked around and was fascinated by the gawking spectators, flock of photographers, and solom mourners.

ieatmedia.com is dedicated to the exploration of relationships captured and alternatively created through the gazes of photographers and their apparatuses.

A metaphor for our unrelenting critical consumption and digestion of media we encounter, we're concerned with chewing up (analyzing) specific instances of power relationships created during media production and regurgitating (synthesizing) salient and productive critiques.

We hope both that producers of art might temper the damaging aspects of their pursuits , and that the subjects of art everywhere might be more aware of how to guard themselves against objectification, exploitation, subjectification and other pitfalls.

Lofty goals aside however, satisfaction in this pursuit is predicated more simply on nothing more than a more ethical personal methodology for the capture of media.

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