Into everyday settings, photographer AHNDRAYA PARLATO inserts a grain of discomfort whose resultant tension wears over time and in turn makes repeated viewings of her work a new revelation. She plays with reality and creates a world divorced from any order of logic.

“I very consciously work at creating a body of work that is thematically & conceptually cohesive rather than say, uses one subject matter as the premise for an entire series. (…) for me, making photographs is also an act of exploring, so I may have ideas I want to work on, but I don’t know exactly what it is I’m looking for – if I did, I feel like to a certain extent, there would be no point in making the images. Subsequently, I tend to be interested in more expansive bodies of work – or ones that although conceptually or thematically unified, might allow for a certain diversity or range within subject matter; I am thinking of artists like Jeff Wall, Collier. Schorr and Wolfgang Tillmans.” – AHNDRAYA PARLATO for SiouxWIRE

Born in Kailua, Hawaii in 1979, she received a B.A. from Bard College and went on to graduate from the California College of Arts with an M.F.A. where she returned to lecture. She now teaches at Ithaca College in New York state.