© Jaime Permuth, 2025
There are millions upon millions of photographs in the vaults of the Smithsonian. This week however, I'm expanding my search to the National Archives in Maryland. Counterintuitive? Perhaps. I mean, I could spend the next year researching and never leave DC! But as an artist you gotta trust your instincts.
One thing is for sure: my Fellowship at SI is as complex, fascinating and challenging as I hoped it would be.
What's in a little black box?
When I returned from Guatemala in mid-March, I had 5000+ new images on my hard drive. After seven weeks of daily editing (5AM to 9AM) I've pared down that number to just under 300 images.
Printed 4x6 inches, the stack fills the box to the brim.
My hope is that I will return from my Artist Residence at FotoVisura with a new edit of 100 shining photographs. Then, I can begin to lay out the book.
Next week Friday, my wife, Hye-Ryoung Min and I are packing matching bags for our twin Artist Residencies at the Foto Visura Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Can't wait to work closely with the expert eyes of Adriana Teresa Letorney and Graham Letorney! Posting a recent landscape from each of us: on the left side a Korean landscape by HRM and on the right one of mine from my most recent trip to Guatemala.