Exit Routes depicts portraits of my surroundings captured in considered personal spaces displaced by double exposures of chance encounters. In 2020 I created a body of work entitled 'Free Yourself' after moving into my parent's home due to the pandemic. I realized that restricting myself to a 35mm film camera could help me process the ongoings of the world outside the bubble that I found myself in rural Idaho. I'm finding the joy in not knowing what the outcome of this film will be and it's allowing me to stay focused and present when I take my friend's and family's portraits.
Artist REID CALVERT (b. 1992, Austin, Texas) studied at Central Saint Martin’s in London, and now lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Reid Calvert’s work is concerned with recreation and how people gather and celebrate, with the aim of exploring what the relations are that emerge through those actions. Calvert’s work examines historical process through commemorations of the past.
