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  • Independent Mysteries©︎ Michael Magers

  • Independent Mysteries©︎ Michael Magers

  • Independent Mysteries©︎ Michael Magers

  • Independent Mysteries©︎ Michael Magers

2022.1.13 ー 2.20

Michael Magers "Independent Mysteries"

DELTA is delighted to present the exhibition “Independent Mysteries” by Michael Magers, one of the winners of DELTA’s open call in 2021 for submissions. For the exhibition, Magers selected twenty photographs from his eponymous photobook of street photography from around the world, and arranged them in a horizontal layout reminiscent of traditional picture scrolls.

Despite the differences in time and locality, the various motifs in each of Magers’ works overlap in various unusual ways and layers. A girl caught through the window of a bus in one shot becomes linked with the snake in a glass cage seen in another photo, with glass seemingly transformed into a device separating the self from the outside. Magers’ photographs and their combinations prompt us to imagine ways in which to perceive the world surrounding the girl.

While each of Magers’ images carries its own independent world and story, their scroll-like arrangement lets hidden connections, intentions and disconnections emerge from the spaces between the photographs.

 

▍About the Artist
A documentary photographer and journalist who splits his time between New York City and Austin, Texas. He is a frequent collaborator with the highly acclaimed team at Roads & Kingdoms and served as the lead photographer on their award-winning books, “Rice Noodle Fish”and “Grape Olive Pig” (as well as contributing to the 3rd book in the series “Pasta Pane Vino”) published by Harper Collins/Anthony Bourdain. His images are exhibited both internationally and in the U.S. and have appeared in a wide range of digital and print publications including TIME, Smithsonian, Vogue Italia, British Journal of Photography, Huck, Outside, The California Sunday Magazine, CNN’s Explore Parts Unknown, New York Times – T Magazine (via Instagram Takeover), The Guardian, and The Washington Post. His first monograph, Independent Mysteries, was published by Hatje Cantz in late 2019. Michael’s work documenting craftsmanship in Japan was named a 2016 Critical Mass Finalist and in 2019, he was shortlisted for the Hariban Award.

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