“After the Embers Burn and Die explores identity built upon false truths and a lineage of self-created mythos. I use photography as a medium to create narratives and explore a world between fiction and reality, investigating themes of mysticism, animism, and death. Through image-making, I engage with the duality of my father’s stories, exploring how storytelling and photographs hold the power to construct one’s identity and understanding of the world around them.” (Jake Benzinger)
Artist Bio: Jake Benzinger is a photographer, book artist, and writer based in Rockland, Maine; he received his BFA in photography from Lesley University, College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA.
His work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Haute Photographie Rotterdam, Center for Fine Art Photography, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 82Parris, Panopticon Gallery, RIT City Space Gallery, and more. He has been featured by numerous platforms including GUP Magazine, Lensculture, Float Magazine, Lenscratch, Transference Magazine, and Fraction Magazine. His publications are held in collections at the National Gallery of Art, School of Visual Arts, and Griffin Museum of Photography, and his monograph, Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest), was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucie Photobook Prize.
Instagram – @jake_benzinger
Website – jakebenzinger.com
