Abstract
Atoms and Leaves is a photographic project presented as windows into a utopia. The glass images display a potential time and place where the landscape, photography, and transness intertwine and grow from each other. Photography historically harms the landscape- requiring precious metals, releasing pollution into the atmosphere, and creating hazardous water waste. The traditional photographic canon erases the connection between queerness and ecology. Atoms and Leaves rethreads these connections, creating a world where photography collaborates with the landscape and takes on a transgender perspective by reshaping given material. The photographic printing process developed in this project was inspired by the trans gesture of reshaping one’s given identity and models a possibility for ecological photographic image making.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Photography--Environmental aspects; Photography, Artistic; Transgender people in art; Transgender people--Identity
Publication Date
4-25-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Student Type
Graduate
Degree Name
Photography and Related Media (MFA)
Department, Program, or Center
Photographic Arts and Sciences, School of
College
College of Art and Design
Advisor
Joshua Thorson
Advisor/Committee Member
Ahndraya Parlato
Advisor/Committee Member
Juan Orrantia
Recommended Citation
Tomanovich, Patty, "Atoms and Leaves" (2024). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/theses/11764
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Plan Codes
IMGART-MFA