The Harsh Desert

Project Information

Photography Exhibition

The Harsh Desert opened with crit­i­cal and pop­u­lar acclaim in Palm Springs, California on February 2008 and was fea­tured in the local news, both print and tele­vi­sion. It was all very excit­ing for every­one involved. Sure, I missed it due my being in the Philippines con­duct­ing train­ing, but it does not take away from the sense of accom­plish­ment I felt being able to exhibit my work.

The Harsh Desert: Feb 21st - March 3rd

Promotional art used to pro­mote The Harsh Desert. Design by Jayel Aheram.

I finally had the chance to see first-hand how a solo exhi­bi­tion is set up dur­ing the exhibition’s encore pre­sen­ta­tion. There is quite a bit of work involved, not includ­ing media inter­views and many, many emails and phone calls. The hard­est part is the inter­ac­tion with exhi­bi­tion view­ers and answer­ing ques­tions they might have of a par­tic­u­lar pho­to­graph or gen­eral ques­tions about my expe­ri­ences in Iraq. What I do find inter­est­ing is that peo­ple often are under the impres­sion that 1) I am not a Marine or 2) if I am, I am no longer actively serv­ing, or 3) if I am serv­ing, I am a com­bat cameraman.

At the Art Show

An exhi­bi­tion goer view­ing Jayel Aheram’s photography.

Either way, I am grate­ful to have had this oppor­tu­nity. It is an expe­ri­ence and one I will always cherish.

Articles

Editor

The dif­fer­ent paths an artist chooses to take in his even­tual cre­ation of art is a jour­ney that has long held a fas­ci­na­tion for me. The processes under­taken, the chal­lenges faced, or the rela­tion­ships that grew or suf­fered or neglected in the pur­suit of art, some of the ques­tions that not suf­fi­ciently explored when dis­cussing most art forms.

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Cat’s Eye

Web Designer, Photographer

Cat’s Eye is my online pho­tog­ra­phy port­fo­lio of sorts. I say, “of sorts” pri­mar­ily because the web­site was intended to be a proof-of-concept web­site. It just so hap­pens that I was plan­ning to cre­ate a web­site devoted to exhibit­ing my fea­tured pho­tog­ra­phy and I real­ized that this exper­i­ment in web design could serve two functions.

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Jayel Aheram

Web Designer

I make web­sites. I do not just code, I do not just design, I do not just cre­ate con­tent. I do all of it, from draft­ing the first lay­outs to build­ing the wire frame; from edit­ing the images used to design­ing the typog­ra­phy; and from cod­ing the required HTML, CSS, and Javascript to pro­vid­ing and edit­ing the content.

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