Masks, Mirrors, and Windows: The Photographs of Ron Whitehead with Interview

In "Just Another Day" (2018) a figure stands in a jacket and tie, with helmet and goggles suspended over an smoky, cloudy space where the head should be. Other works from the Art of Healing series show Whitehead "breaking the plane" of the camera lens by reaching out from the lens with a light meter while oil fields burn in the viewfinder (which could be an image from a memory card). [...]even in this series, the turmoil and anxiety of war are expressed, with war and peace, death and life, in conflict, a conflict not so easily eliminated by religion, but at best leading to an uneasy co-existence. Maybe we could start with a little bit about your military experience and how that led to becoming an art teacher at Ossining High School, how long you've been there, and what you are doing in your art teaching.