Work samples

  • Last one
    Last one

    This selection is from a larger series of photographs included in this portfolio titled, "You Cannot Have This Place". Archival inkjet print from 35mm film. 2024

  • Peach Season 1
    Peach Season 1

    This selection is from a larger series of photographs included in this portfolio titled, "You Cannot Have This Place". Archival inkjet print from 35mm film. 2023

  • Cannot take photo
    Cannot take photo
    As printed in Wild Blue Yonder zine: Laser xerox print, 8.5 x 14 inches, 2018
  • Untitled, from wild blue yonder
    Untitled, from wild blue yonder
    Archival inkjet print, 12 x 18 inches, 2016

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About Ariana

Baltimore City  

Ariana Mygatt is an artist educator working professionally in public school education and photography.  She runs the photography program and teaches all levels of photo at Parkville High School. Her visual arts practice is primarily film photography, investigating the genre of landscape and place through visually poignant moments and spaces created within our natural and unnatural surroundings. She also considers her role as educator to be an extension of her artistic practice. Ariana is… more

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You Cannot Have This Place

You Cannot Have This Place is a portrait of a man, my father, in his home of nearly a century. It is also a record of this land and these woods. Of corners of his rooms. Of his molds spreading beneath paint. Of maintenance. Of things cut down and grown and cut down again, or of wondering when and where they will fall. Of things built and things buried, of things bloomed or blown up, of things dropped and forgotten, lost in the weeds. And of the accumulated ghosts of generations of children playing in the dirt, of dead dogs and deer, of ex wives and widows, of cars rotting under leaves, of coming and going, of ancestors. Of things no one wants and no one can have. But for my singular desperation for it, for another hundred years. And of the end in sight.

  • Blueprint
    Blueprint

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024

  • Doronicum
    Doronicum

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024

  • Neighbors
    Neighbors

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023

  • Last one 2
    Last one 2

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024

  • All of this / At the pool
    All of this / At the pool

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023

  • Summer whites
    Summer whites

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024

  • Last one
    Last one

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024

  • Woodshed
    Woodshed

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023

  • Joseph
    Joseph

    Archival Inkjet Print from medium format film, 2024

  • Peach season 2
    Peach season 2

    Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023

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    • Sam's Town

    A series of images made in and around Centerville, Utah, east of the Great Salt Lake, emphasizing the materials of a rugged, natural, and suburban western landscape.

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      Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-1.jpg

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024

    • Feed Store
      Feed Store

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022

    • Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-4.jpg
      Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-4.jpg

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024

    • Reservoir
      Reservoir

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022

    • Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-1-2.jpg
      Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-1-2.jpg

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024

    • Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-6.jpg
      Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-6.jpg

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024

    • Jesus
      Jesus

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022

    • Mountain View Park
      Mountain View Park

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022

    • Dressing Room
      Dressing Room

      Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022

    • Out back
      Out back

      Archival Inkjet Print from medium format film photograph

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    • I only wish I could be around to plan my funeral with you

    This is a photographic project that visually explores themes of memory, fear, loss, and a conversation I had with my father in 2017. It is shot on 35mm film at various points past expiration.
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    • wild blue yonder

    "The wild blue yonder came upon us like a drunken zoom lens thundering into focus. It seemed that God had made up His mind to change the background without telling anyone." -- Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.

    This selection is from a larger series of photographs inspired by Babitz. It was shot on a combination of 35mm and digital and has been collected and published in a zine by the same name.

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    • Cover of Wild Blue Yonder Zine
      Cover of Wild Blue Yonder Zine
    • Spread from Wild Blue Yonder Zine
      Spread from Wild Blue Yonder Zine
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