Thomas Whitworth, Constructed Realities (Male with pants down/Mugshot), 2023, Pigment print, 20 x 30 inches, $500.

These images are from the Constructed Realities portfolio that presents fifty photographic diptychs created from anonymous nude male and female portraits purchased off of eBay. The portraits were scanned and digitally aligned alongside setup stilllifes, snapshots, and real world views. The combined images present possible narratives and histories for the previously unrelated photographs and serve as modern examples of the suggestive power of the Kuleshov Effect, a photographic phenomena of interpretation discovered in 1918 by Soviet cinema pioneer Lev Kuleshov.

Thomas Whitworth is an artist and educator holding a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a MA from California State University at Fullerton, CA and a BFA from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl. He has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 40 years. - T.W.