Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen is known for investigating the invisible through the visible, with a wide-ranging practice that spans image making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering and other disciplines. The clandestine and hidden are revealed in series such as The Black Sites, The Other Night Sky and Limit Telephotography, where the limits of vision are examined through the histories of landscape photography, abstraction, Romanticism and technology.

Paglen’s inquiry into the epistemology of representation continues in his Symbology and Code Names series, which use text, video, object and image to explore questions surrounding military culture and language. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing ways to imagine alternative futures.