Mike Vos is a photographer, visual artist, and musician from Portland, OR (and former two-time Assets for Artists resident). Somewhere in Another Place distills more than three years of work and countless miles traveled across the continent into 49 double-exposure photographs which represent nearly 100 distinct locations. We are invited into a procession of carefully invented places, to witness their visual echoes, to see their waters mirror ancient shapes. Here you’ll find vessels mixed with mountains, waterfalls framed by windows, stalactites crossed with a satellite dish, geologic formations stitched with ephemeral human structures on their way out of existence.

Vos’ imagery is composed, overlaid, and captured manually on a large-format camera, composing new terrains of landscape and the built environment like some visionary game of Tetris. Mike Vos presents a new sort of landscape photography for the Anthropocene, one that is a practice of both time and place, and which seeks transcendence by altering what and how we see.

About the Artist:

Drawing inspiration from various literary movements and themes, Mike Vos uses traditional and experimental 4×5 film techniques, multi-channel video, field recordings and instrumentation to craft complex narratives that advocate for the preservation of wild spaces. Constantly pushing the capabilities of film photography, analog video, and sound, Vos creates immersive experiences to draw viewers into surreal representations of physical places. Somewhere in Another Place is his first book.