1989-1997 OOP Italian politics

Italian politics

loss and grief — biblical in its scope

march 2010

I could easily have been taken for one of them

This collection of photographs by Steven Arnold continues his elaborately theatrical imagery populated by angels

1989-1997 OOP Italian politicsI started taking photographs as a teenager, nearly twenty five years ago. Since then my work has been an ongoing meditation around desire, loss, and the role of photography as a vehicle for remembrance. My pictures often function as metaphors for the way the mind works: simultaneously collecting images while letting others go, fading in the way memories fade, and alluding to the fact that, historically, photographs have faded as well. Bill Jacobson