Galen Ward (Seattle, WA)
Digital Photograph on Lightbox, edition of 5
Also available on paper
30”h x 40”w

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Galen Ward is a photographer who seeks out photos that can be transformed when juxtaposed with 2 words. In No Dumping, he has found a subject that needs no descriptors: Petunia (the outhouse) has found its own text, via a group of dirty geology researchers.

Petunia is one of many comical outhouses on the Juneau Icefields, a massive glacier system covering hundreds of square kilometers in Southeaster Alaska. Other outhouses include The Venus Fly Trap and The Double Decker, which is quite possibly the world’s only fully-functioning two-story outhouse.