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Uncanny Peaks: A Short Photo Essay by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

Sweeping the bricks to the center. The door is too heavy to stay open on its own. (2019)
Sweeping the bricks to the center. The door is too heavy to stay open on its own. (2019)

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. first entered our field of vision in 2017, when Rindon Johnson introduced us to his unique creative power. Three years later, we are still floored by the way the artist—whose photographic practice is often conceptual, and sometimes sculptural—is able to invert our expectations, holding us at a distance that feels both impossibly far and incredibly close. For these pages, Brown shares a dispatch from his lens.