About Jon

I’m a photographer who makes stories from fragments. My work examines how we construct meaning from incomplete information — pairing unrelated images, photographing urban debris, amplifying pure randomness — and what those constructions reveal about the compulsion to impose coherence where none was intended.

Dip|Tychs pairs photographs from institutional contexts: museums, commercial signage, public architecture. Juxtaposition generates unexpected relationships. Titles function as puns or cultural references that reframe what’s visible without dictating interpretation, exploiting how framing and naming shape perception.

Noise photographs television static, zooming into analog interference until compositions emerge. Random titles generated by algorithm are paired with images through subjective association, then critiqued by AI with no additional context, creating a closed loop of projection where human and machine both manufacture meaning from pure randomness.

24-Hour Flu documents a 2012 durational performance: 288 images posted to social media every five minutes for 24 hours, pulled randomly from my camera roll and captioned with found tweets and platform syntax. The work performs the compulsive production social media demands, exposing the physical toll of digital productivity and the absurdity of staying relevant through relentless posting.

Street Photography removes human subjects from the frame entirely. What remains, weathered crosswalks, torn fabric, urban debris, is paired with hard-boiled detective narratives that impose fully developed fictional worlds onto surfaces that were never asking for one.

Graphic Images uses fragmented, panel-like compositions inspired by graphic novels, each paired with a short allegorical text. Together they construct a serial narrative about the mechanics of disinformation, blind conformity, and institutional collapse.

Across all projects, the work operates in the gap between what’s there and what we see, asking how much of what feels like meaning was always already projection.