A series of photographs taken over the course of two summers in California by photographer, artist and educator, Blake Masi. Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Masi’s work focuses on environments shaped by human systems and considers how these spaces reflect the psychological and cultural conditions of a post-digital generation. “Camp” is an ongoing project that captures Masi’s time working at a camp in the Northern Sierra region. Though surrounded by wilderness, cabins were built among trees and trails cut into the land. Here daily life is structured around shared labour and communal routines. Phones are not permitted, creating a feeling of existing slightly outside contemporary time:
“These photographs consider how individuals inhabit designed environments and leave traces of themselves within them. At the camp, daily routines including play, labor, and interpersonal relationships mark the space, just as the structure of the place shapes those who move through it. The camp becomes a temporary world built through collective participation, where human psychology impresses itself upon the landscape. In this setting, the tension between the artificial and the natural is negotiated and lived each day.”
Blake Masi is featured in Array 4 out now!
