Untitled (Diana Series), 1975
"I’ve always loved looking. I still remember being five years old and staring out the window for the longest time. And it’s clearly this fascination that led me to pick up photography, combined with feeling alienated as a teenager. I probably used the act of looking, and recording, to create a connection with the world around me, to try to figure it all out. The camera was a license to travel both physically and mentally. Over time, it brought me many places and erased many of my fears."
Bill Jacobson has been making photographs for over forty years. Though his methods have varied considerably, the work is joined by underlying concerns with memory, perception, and the dialogue between absence and presence.