Tristan Wheelock showed a series of panoramic images taken over the past four years at an opening on July 22nd at Frontrunner Gallery.

Artist Statement:

I affectionately call my little Ansco Pix Panorama the “one dollar wonder.” I picked it up at a thrift store nearly half a decade ago and immediately fell in love with the wide perspective and the unpredictable
results of shooting through a plastic lens.

The images in this series are part journal and part travelogue. I’ve been drifting throughout the world for the past four years working as a photojournalist and these panoramic pictures provide with an escape from the digital rectangles I get paid to make.

The photographs I take with this camera are more like diary entries than anything else. Limited by the number of exposures on a roll of film, each frame becomes a little more important and thus the process slows down and sometimes becomes almost meditative.

I’ve grouped these pictures to represent a nostalgia for the recent past. They span the country from coast to coast with a focus on my hometown and shorelines. Nostalgia is a general theme in my imagery as a whole and I think it shows through strongly in these panoramas.

A large crowd attended the show to celebrate 104 degree summer New York City summer weather as well as performances by musicians Open to the Hound, Sam Yield, Carly Howard, Desiree Portalatin-Gutierrez, Weird Chess, and reading by writer Mathew Van Deventer.

Event Photography by Leah Overstreet.

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