Levi Mandel

My work is a study of the tension between nature and the man-made world. The objects I photograph are important on their own but exist only in relation to their surroundings. An abandoned, forgotten car strikes me as inherently beautiful, but what I’m truly interested in is not just the car but the yard in which it sits, the owner who used to drive the car, and the mystery of where the owner is now and why he no longer drives it. What about the boarded-up Victorian home, which at one point housed a family, and now has been overgrown by ivy and surrounded by weeds? At one point, every object was new, but over time, it is inevitably forgotten or destroyed. These objects inform the work I create.

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