Artist Residency: Jonna McKone, Maryland | film
Jonna McKone is a photographer, filmmaker and freelance producer and director based in Baltimore, Maryland. Spanning video, large format photography and alternative processes, her work explores the connections between land, power, and communities. She is currently working on a project that explores land use histories in the mid-Atlantic. She recently was a fellow at the Center for Documentary Studies where she developed a collaborative photography project which will be published as a photobook in the fall of 2021. Her work has shown in film festivals, galleries and museums and has been supported by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation’s Rubys Artist Grant, the Metropolitan Visual Arts Center, Skidmore’s Storytellers’ Institute, the Lewis Hine Fellowship, and the National Edward R. Murrow Awards.
During her residency Jonna will continue to make site-based exposures using her large format camera and the lumen process in landscapes and terrains that bear histories of resource extraction. She will also begin work researching a new film and conduct research for her on-going photography project, Slow Drift. Her work will explore the permeability of the land and weather with the body and identity, the storytelling process and the material intersection photography and place. With the Platteforum interns, she will embark on a number of field studies ranging from cloud studies, to personal, room diaries, to a site visit to a former mining site. She also hopes to make a portrait with each intern in a location unique to them.
Residency Period: April 6 - May 20, 2021
Exhibition Opening: May 20, 2021
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