Basically, as consumers of photographs, we want to know the space between the learnable and the unknowable, and I think that’s what all of our photographs are doing in these books, they sort of tell you something that looks like its a documentary photograph, poses to be a documentary photograph, but then takes you somewhere else, it denies you your initial expectation and hopefully delivers something else. – Ron Jude

This is the one moment where you actually get to see what these deer look like, but again, it’s still shrouded. So as a documentary project, it fails, it doesn’t really tell you much about the deer, but it becomes more about this search for knowledge. And I often find the same thing when I look at some documentary work, I just don’t really access what’s going on, or I do so in a very literal way. And so what I was hoping to do with this work is to move away from the literal and get at a different way of knowing, a different way of accessing what our world is about, if you will. – Danielle Mericle