Photograph by Clay Mills : Artist in Resident Fall/Winter 2025
8×12” Archival Inkjet Print on Luster Paper
Clay Mills is a photographer, filmmaker and writer originally from Texas, now based in Chicago. Clay photographs modernity, taking pictures of the “ugly” as if it was “beautiful.” His photos have been derided by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Curator of Photography as “like Cartier-Bresson taking the decisive moment, but [instead] taking the indecisive moment.” He has shown work at Filter Photo, the Gene Siskel Film Center, Experimental Sound Studio, and the Museum of the Big Bend. Clay’s hope is that his work is adequate to what Baudelaire tasked us with: to capture, “the fugitive, fleeting beauty of present-day life... often weird, violent, and excessive.”
Photograph by Clay Mills : Artist in Resident Fall/Winter 2025
8×12” Archival Inkjet Print on Luster Paper
Clay Mills is a photographer, filmmaker and writer originally from Texas, now based in Chicago. Clay photographs modernity, taking pictures of the “ugly” as if it was “beautiful.” His photos have been derided by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Curator of Photography as “like Cartier-Bresson taking the decisive moment, but [instead] taking the indecisive moment.” He has shown work at Filter Photo, the Gene Siskel Film Center, Experimental Sound Studio, and the Museum of the Big Bend. Clay’s hope is that his work is adequate to what Baudelaire tasked us with: to capture, “the fugitive, fleeting beauty of present-day life... often weird, violent, and excessive.”