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The Girl Next Door: Fragmented images inspired by Irving Penn's Summer Sleep, New York

In her photo essay, The Girl Next Door, New York City based photographer Jordan Tiberio pays homage to Irving Penn’s 1949 photograph ‘Summer Sleep, New York’, creating curious, fragmented images that hide the bigger picture.

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Fragmented view through a window screen showing pixelated flesh tones, green foliage and red fabric, with water droplets obscuring portions of the composition

Speaking to The Photographic Journal, she said: "Much of my personal work revolves around the theories of memory, and how the medium of photography aids or destroys this natural process.

"In this body of work, I chose to focus on how that loss of information can be objectified with the use of a camera. Using a window screen as the central point of focus in each image, simple snap shots are broken down into complex blocks of colour, each becoming a building block for the bigger picture. Dashes of water obstruct bits of each scene, representing the fragments of our memories lost to time."

Jordan won numerous awards and gained international acclaim before she even received her BFA in photography from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2015. If you love her work, you can purchase prints via the Milk Gallery. Or visit www.jordantiberio.com to discover more.

Via This Isn't Happiness & The Photographic Journal

Pixelated portrait of a woman with reddish hair viewed through a window screen, with yellow and brown tones fragmenting her face into coloured blocks
Window screen fragmenting yellow flowers and foliage into pixelated blocks of colour with water droplets obscuring parts of the scene
Red flowers with yellow centres viewed through a pixelated window screen with water droplets obscuring the scene
Pixelated view through a window screen of a white house with ivy-covered walls and manicured shrubs, with water droplets obscuring portions of the scene
Aerial view of a person lying on moss-covered ground viewed through a window screen, fragmented into pixelated colour blocks with water droplets obscuring parts of the scene
Woman in pink dress standing behind a window screen, her figure fragmented into pixelated blocks of colour by the mesh pattern
Pixelated portrait of a young woman with reddish-brown hair, her face partially obscured by a window screen pattern creating fragmented blocks of colour against white and blue backgrounds
Pink and white flowers viewed through a pixelated window screen with water droplets obscuring portions of the scene, fragmenting the image into blocks of colour
Pink flowers and a bee viewed through a window screen with water droplets obscuring parts of the fragmented scene
Woman in white shirt viewed through a window screen with water droplets and foliage, creating a fragmented pixelated effect
Person with reddish-brown hair viewed from behind through a window screen, wearing a white shirt with red and green diagonal streaks across the back, surrounded by blurred green foliage
Pixelated photograph of a sleeping face viewed through a window screen, with cream and green tones fragmented into coloured blocks and water droplets obscuring parts of the image
Pixelated portrait of a woman viewed through a window screen with water droplets, fragmented into blocks of colour and obscured by a mesh overlay
Window screen pixelates a view of green foliage and blue sky, with water droplets fragmenting the scene into blocks of colour
Yellow and white flowers with green foliage fragmented into pixelated blocks behind a window screen, with water droplets obscuring parts of the scene
Woman in pink floral dress standing in garden, partially obscured by window screen mesh creating pixelated effect
Fragmented view through a window screen showing a reclining figure by a pond, pixelated into blocks of colour with water droplets obscuring parts of the pastoral scene
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