Seeing Things - a ghost polaroid photo exibit! October 27, 2007

drkrm. Gallery
2121 San Fernando Road • Suite 3
Los Angeles, CA 90065
323.223.6867
http://www.drkrm.com

SEEING THINGS: ghost polaroids
October 27 - November 4, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 27, 7 p.m. - Midnight
Special Halloween hours Oct 31st, 7 p.m. – Midnight

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After years of dismissing inexplicable sounds, fleeting images and broken crockery, owners of a modest Mt. Washington home began to suspect that their house may be haunted. They began taking Polaroid pictures of cold spots and places in the house where their Saint Bernard refused to tread. What they got back were snapshots that were anything but ordinary. In fact, it changed their lives forever.

Drkrm. Gallery is hosting a special, limited-run, Halloween retrospective called SEEING THINGS. It is the first public viewing of this rare and unique collection of paranormal photographs. As featured on the TV shows SIGHTINGS and UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES, these images are just a fraction of the hundreds of photos captured in the last two decades, most never before seen by the public.

Many of the photographs on display were taken before Photoshop, digital imaging and cell phone cameras changed photography. Each Polaroid is original and unique. They show familiar rooms with wispy, feathery tendrils and misty tufts of white substances and, amazingly, cloud-like writing. Even more extraordinary is the relevance of the words to whatever questions had been asked. Usually a response came in English, but sometimes it appeared in Latin. For example, after questioning the identity of the answering spirit, a response came in Latin; “Et alla Corpus delicti,” (among other things, a murder victim). The words floating in midair were invisible when the photo was taken.

SEEING THINGS explores the boundary between the known and the unknown. It asks whether something as simple and functional as photographs of record — people at a party, an empty room, an open door — can be a gateway to something more. These startling photographs challenge perceptions of reality and art. Is the image of the room with the ghostly writing the way we see ghosts, or is it the way ghosts see us? Who is seeing things, after all? Come explore these strangely surreal photographs and decide for yourself.

drkrm. gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to fine art and documentary photography, cutting edge and alternative photographic processes and the display and survey of popular cultural images.

drkrm. gallery • 2121 San Fernando Road • Suite 3 • Los Angeles CA 90065
323.223.6867 • www.drkrm.com/ghost.html • [email protected]
Hours Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm • Sunday 1pm - 4pm and by appointment

All gallery events are free and open to the public.

Official Website: http://www.drkrm.com/ghost.html