Michael Lease

Michael Lease is an adjunct professor in our photography department. His work is highly personal in content, his images are very intimate. He pushes the idea that his work isn't necessarily meant for "contemporary eyes," but instead for future audiences. In his artist statement, he mentions that his work encourages (at least hopefully) thoughts about how time injects meaning into the mundane: 

these images ask the viewer to take the time to look, empathize, and consider that with time all things matter.

This idea is particularly present in his 2003 piece/ongoing work For The Lack of Words, a growing archive of subjective moments--a catalog of friends, family, and inconsequential situations that, he hopes to prove, will mean more over time through different eyes.

I love how he uses flash photography to highlight ordinary objects (a technique I mentioned in my presentation).