This lecture was one of the more enjoyable and insightful lectures for me this year. I really admire and respect photographers and artists who stop at nothing to get the images they want to produce. Shambroom must have had a very hard time getting into most of the places he wanted to shoot; top secret missile compounds and the insides of major factories. Though I really respect and was interested in his concepts behind his series on factories and homeland security, I felt the images were very drab and not as interesting as the concepts they were trying to hold up. I was most drawn to his series on meetings.
His original intent was to get in on the major meetings between high officials in the government and internal affairs. After not being able to gain access to such meetings, he's settled for small town meetings in the south for random groups. These images were all shot at around the same distance, and each of the meetings show a group of the stereotypical older, many overweight generation of America. It's really interesting to view the images of these people and try to figure out what part of America they are from and what they are having a meeting for.
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