Darkmatter Ed. II: Fall 2017

From the editors: This photojournal is a showcase of the works of the members of the photography club at Carnegie Mellon University. In the narratives enclosed within, the artists explore narratives relating to personal histories, enviornment, and human connection. These issues are all hightened in the cultural climate of the world today.

Through this publication, we aim to provide a meaningful connection between these issues and to pave the way for reflection, understanding, and amusement.

Editors Theodore Teichman & Matthew McGehee

Petrochemical

Theodore Teichman

Mutability

Matthew McGehee

Faces

Neethi Jayachandran

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Meijie Hu

It took many hours, on a Sunday evening, to drive from Trieste the few miles into Tito’s Yugoslavia. I can see now the hundreds of cars lurching and overheating in the gathering dusk, the ad hoc hamburger bars beside the road, the occasional truck bullying its way up the queue by sheer weight and horsepower, pale weary faces at the windows of buses and at last the dim-lit frontier post, and a joyless official with a red star on his cap. A slow flicking through the pages of our passports, a silent gesture of release, and away with us into the communist half of Europe. ‘Cheer up,’ I said to the frontier official once. ‘Enjoy yourself,’ the man lugubriously replied.

Jan Morris – Contact! A Book of Encounters