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"More/Less" exhibition and zine

August 14, 2025

“Curios Devices: Clock Repair” is included in the online exhibition and printed zine from Float Photo Magazine. The “More/Less” project is a collaboration by Float, 20/20 Photo Festival, Gravy Studio, and Mixam. The zine will be available at the 20/20 Photo Festival Book Fair & Exhibition at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia, PA, September 6 - 30, 2025.

More / Less is an exploration of scale-not just as a visual device, but as a way of seeing and feeling the world. These photographs probe the boundaries between the colossal and the minute, the intimate and the overwhelming. They ask: what happens when we shift our perspective? A towering structure may crumble under emotional weight; a pocket-sized memory may expand until it fills the frame. Here, scale becomes a tool of transformation—a means to reshape hierarchies, reframe the familiar, and reassign emotional weight to what we often overlook.

This collection invites you to look again-to get closer, or to step back.

Each image plays with the rules of size and perception, warping space to reorient what matters. In a time when truth feels elastic and structures-both physical and societal -teeter and transform, More / Less offers a visual balancing act between the real and the imagined, the monumental and the miniature, the seen and the felt. These images don't just play with scale-they ask us to reconsider what deserves to take up space.

← Open Studios - Oct 18 & 19Letter-size prints available for $125 →

News

Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix

I'm excited to announce that Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix, 2018 has been added to the art collections of the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut.

In addition, the Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University has acquired Tech Vanitas: Electric Fireflies, 2018.

Tech Vanitas: Electric Fireflies


My public art installation in the New York City subway system is discussed in a recent article on Side of Culture. In 2020, several images from my series “Tech Vanitas” were installed in light boxes through the MTA Arts & Design Lightbox project.


Jeanette May © 2025