Jamie Diamond, a Lecturer in the UPenn Undergraduate Fine Arts Department has an interview by Olver Gehrs examining her work as it relates to the theme "Family" in the German publication, Dummy. The magazine is a monothematic publication curated by an art director. This issue's theme was "Familie" and in it she discusses her work "Created family" where Diamond posts personal ads on the internet looking for different family members in order to create family portraits.
An excerpt from the interview:
Dummy: How would your perfect family look like? In which of your pictures would you fit, do you think?
JD: The starting point for all of the portraits were my own memories and experiences, I have folders of our own family portraits that inspired me. It's strange, I feel each family portrait I created is a representation of my own family and I could fit into any of them. Each shoot was such a personal experience and I was part of all of the families for as long as they existed, from when they met to when they parted. The family only existed in that space and I was the creator of it all.
Click below for a full sized scan of the interview in press (in German):
