Publisher's Synopsis
Portsmouth explores the social and financial cost of deindustrialization, floods, and crime.For six years, Ken D. Ashton photographed Portsmouth, Ohio.Ken D. Ashton's work is included in the following collections:The Corcoran Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art The Washington Post Fannie Mae George Washington University Museum of Contemporary Photography University of Maryland, Albin O. Kuhn GalleryKen D. Ashton's solo exhibition locations:The M Street Project, Civilian Art Projects, June 2009Megalopolis, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC 2007De Aqui al Paraiso, Flashpoint, Washington, DC, 2006 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VACubicle 10, Balitmore, MD, July 2007 Goethe-Institute, Washington, DC, 2000 Signal 66, Washington, DC, 1999Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC, 1992Kriston Capps, the essayist in Portsmouth, is a staff writer for CityLab, the urbanism channel for the Atlantic, and former Senior Editor for Architect Magazine. He is also one of the leading art critics currently writing in Washington, DC.Paul Roth, writer of the introduction, is the Director of the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, past curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and former director of the Richard Avedon Foundation.
