influenced by ari verluis & ellie uyttenbroek, richard billingham, chuck close, and ed ruscha, art meena is an attempt at removing subjectivity from the actual act of photography itself.

the basic premis of meena is to photograph objectively all examples found of a given subject matter, and then impose a meaning on the completely unaltered photographs by selection and definition alone.

meena shoots objectively by shooting each example only once, having the camera set as mush as possible on auto (iso and f-stop can be manually adjusted for lighting conditions), and shooting each example "straight on" with no thought to artistry whatsoever.

an exhibition of selected images from the graffiti series will be held in ballymena town hall in the month of september 2009.