Ciurej & Lochman

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman have developed a range of photographic
projects together over many decades, approaching collaboration as a form of
conversation. Informing their various series are interests in psychological landscapes
and the domestic world. For their Still Moving, Moving Still series, Ciurej and Lochman
worked with the Rod Slemmons Camera Archive and the Chicago Cluster Project to
make contemporary experiments with historical cameras. Using an 1893 Kodak
BullsEye #2 Camera, with modern retrofitting and the use of contemporary film, the
artists created multiple images of the Milwaukee River using overlapping exposures.
The Milwaukee River is well known for its historical importance for hundreds of years
as a life-sustaining waterway for the Indigenous peoples of the United States and
Canada. However, during the last two centuries, the river has been over-used for
tourism and economic development. Embracing the quirks of a camera made in the
1800s, Ciurej and Lochman re-photographed the negatives they produced with an
iPhone in panorama mode. This digital intervention allowed for a visual quality that
imitates the fragmented human experience of observation as well as the precarity of
natural resources.

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman began collaborating in 1978 while they were
students at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Much of their work has involved
creating visual narratives around gender and subjects such as aging or rites of
passage. Their work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others.

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman (American, b. 1956; b.1952)
River 1, 2021
Archival Inkjet Print
7 x 26 ½ inch image on 16 x 31 inch paper
Signed edition of 30