Jessamyn Lovell's series, Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions , is a family portrait that is sure to strike a nerve with almost everyone. The Oakland, CA-based photographer's work takes an honest look at her family, flaws and all. Lovell, a professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA, began photographing her family as a way of coping with the "stress, frustration, anxiety, and guilt" she felt due in part to her home life. Lovell has created 10 different photo albums—albums dedicated to a family member, their home in upstate New York, animals, landscapes, or even Lovell herself. "When I recognized that I was part of them, and therefore partly my own subject, I started to turn the camera upon myself more and more," she says.
Each of the 30-year-old photographer's frames evokes something different from the common (Klare ready to eat) to the intense (Mommy taking insulin) to the off-beat (Allsun with chef knife). Lovell's work is reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's wonderful book, Winesburg, OH: both allow outsiders to enter a world that's incredibly complex, compelling, tragic, and touching.
SMITH talked to Lovell about Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions—and her mother's gun, too. —Kathy Ritchie
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