South King County by Colvin Jansen (1999)

Using a palm-sized Kodak Instamatic Camera, Jansen creates suburban landscapes that are intimate and familiar yet strangely dark and foreboding. Influenced by the work of Sally Mann, Jansen only photographs highly personal subject matter - friends, family members and the places he has lived. Like his mentor, he believes photographers should not mask the photographic process through technical means. For this reason, he uses cameras with plastic lenses and subjects his prints to 'imperfect' development. Each copy of South King County comes with an original signed 4x5 inch print.