Deborah Garwood's 12-Year Photographic Study of Evans Pond Explores History and Medium
Since 1997, Deborah Garwood has been capturing the essence of Evans Pond in Camden County, New Jersey. Situated 80 miles south of New York City, this pond boasts a significant past as a Quaker millpond and a station on the Underground Railroad, now serving as public parkland. An artist and scholar, Garwood documents the pond's seasonal transformations with monthly photographs for 10 to 12 months each year. Her collection features gelatin silver prints and color images arranged in diptychs and sequences to enhance viewer engagement. In August and September 2010, an exhibition titled 'Deborah Garwood: Portrait of a Landscape. Imagery of Evans Pond, 1997-2009' took place at the Fundación Antonio Pérez in Cuenca, Spain, accompanied by an essay from Lilly Wei.
Key facts
- Deborah Garwood began photographing Evans Pond in 1997 and continued for over 12 years.
- Evans Pond is in Camden County, New Jersey, approximately 80 miles south of New York City.
- The pond's history includes being a Quaker millpond coexisting with the Lenni-Lenapes, a 19th-century Underground Railroad station, and now public parkland.
- Garwood photographs the pond one weekend a month for 10 to 12 months each year.
- Her images are presented as suites of gelatin silver prints and some color works, using various cameras and processes.
- An exhibition of the work was held at the Fundación Antonio Pérez in Cuenca, Spain, in August/September 2010.
- The project is described as part historical record, part environmental survey, and part poetics of place.
- Lilly Wei, a New York-based independent curator and critic, wrote an essay for the exhibition catalog.
Entities
Artists
- Deborah Garwood
- Lilly Wei
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Walt Whitman
- William Carlos Williams
Institutions
- Fundación Antonio Pérez
- artcritical
- Reina Sofia
Locations
- Camden County
- New Jersey
- United States
- New York City
- Cuenca
- Spain
- Madrid