Carbon Paper by Hey! Hot Shot entrant Tamir Sher

Current Hey, Hot Shot! entrant Tamir Sher makes photos that explore hyrbids of technology, time, history, and nature. "I'm trying to compress as many layers of eras in one work," he writes in his statement.

Some of his entries make use of illustrated pages torn out of an old Russian encyclopedia.  The work above is crafted from "a double view from both sides of the page in one shot" of a sheet of Carbon paper he found in an old office next to his studio.

He explains further, "I work simultaneously on my projects...Here I can see all those layers of texts and scratches throw the years. Simple as that."

With that description it seems simple, sure, but his images are striking.

You can see more of Sher's work soon, from November 10 - December 10, in "The Nature of Dreams: Israeli Photographs" at the Widener Gallery at Trinity College, in Hartford Connecticut.