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Jeanette May

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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.

Letter-size prints available for $125 →

News

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