None of this is real, said Samuel Gareginyan to a crowd of assembled students, faculty, and other curious onlookers in his warm Armenian accent. Its a different plane of reality. And it was impossible not to see what he meant, in a room full of windows called paintings.
Dirk Westphal uses subjects in his photographs as seemingly banal and commonplace as goldfish, lap dogs, snackcakes, mouthwashes and cold medicines to examine man-made beauty.