ARTIST: Shon Cele Rainey

INSTAGRAM: @scrainy

STATEMENT: My name is Shon Cele Rainey. I am a photographer and video artist born and raised in Springfield, MO. In my work I gravitate towards exploring otherness using analogue and obsolescent formats. This collection of photographs, “Do They Look at You Too?”, was a meditation in the grief of losing my father. It was both scary and soothing spending time with him again. In the past I have focused on conceptual and academic deconstruction of image making. For this collection I wanted to confront the sadness and anger of “losing”. I imagine I’ll be shooting this collection for the rest of my life. This particular illustration is a juxtaposition of knowing him and seeing how people reacted to him in what felt like an anonymous setting. My curiosity comes from observing the handling of my father during his last days in the hospital and my dissatisfaction with the impersonal nature of life and death in the medical field.
Do They Look at You Too?