Erik Schubert

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About Erik Schubert

If your photographs could talk, what would most of them say? This is very important and it happens to be a bit funny, but also a little sad. Describe the most important photo you’ve seen? A complexly structured square photograph by Lee Friedlander, of what looks like the LA Freeway with fences and signs and then near the middle is a dog having its morning constitutional. I always enjoyed images and especially making them, but at the time my photo knowledge was really limited to Rolling Stone magazines and people like Ansel Adams. I enjoyed some of these images, but most never stuck with me. Once I saw that Friedlander photograph I was blown away and thought I really could do something with photography. What are some main themes in your photography? My studio work involves examining contemporary culture in various ways from looking at the landscape, to the products we use and our everyday existence. My first book,"How to Win Friends And Influence People," released in 2013 by Lavalette, is an examination of corporate mythologies and how they visually inhabit our daily environments. Looking at the hopes and aspirations of such places as expositions and conventions and the ephemera associated within the corporate dialogue, my work hopes to uncover a greater awareness of how these mythologies continue to affect our society.