Grayson Gibbs - Photography

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Digital

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2017

Analog

2024

Commissions and Events

Series

Drowning in Debt (2024)

This series explores the triumphs and turbulence of an active shopping addiction, as well as the repercussions that follow in its wake. Through images depicting looming temptation, temporary satisfaction, desperate attempts at recovery, and financial suffocation, I visually relay a commonly dismissed compulsion. Although I’m not as susceptible to excessive spending during the time of my making this series, I’ve struggled with regulating my spending habits even when the consequences included a subpar credit score and noncanonical ways of obtaining spending money.

I hone in on the fleeting nature of materially derived satisfaction by showcasing how quickly clothing in particular can pile up; oftentimes scarcely revisited and even so, never with the same joy that accompanied its purchasing. The key photo in this series, inspired by the saying “drowning in debt”, reflects a sense of helplessness experienced upon realizing the extent to which I financially expended myself at the worst of my compulsive shopping. Being a recovering alcoholic, I’m all too familiar with the fact that the first step in recovery is the admittance of a problem, but sometimes in a process addiction the action can feel so benign (especially when compared to alcoholism) that it can slip past the radar of a trained eye. While these images don’t delve into how consequential a shopping addiction can truly be, it’s meant to show how casual it can appear at first glance.

1s and 0s (2023)

In this project I explore the ubiquitous nature of gender in our daily interactions. I accomplished this by capturing highly gendered items and scenes, focusing on the binary. My own frustration with gender's seemingly inescapable rigidity fueled this series. The photos reinforce how intertwined the binary is in everything; you are either assigned to be either a One or a Zero without thought for 2, 3, and 4. It’s my goal to call attention to unnecessary gender division and the quintessential male/female identification by photographing both subtleties and blatant examples. However, once you truly start to pay attention all subtleties become blatant.