“Shut Up Truth is a document of artist Michael Schmelling’s friendship with James Holloway, a Texas native and union projectionist. The project began in 1996, when Schmelling met Holloway at a film screening while on assignment in Texas for the Associated Press. Shut Up Truth is an unflincing and intimate portrait of a single, white middle-aged man. All photographs were taken in El Paso.”
portraits of the goodhumoured Texan James Holloway, friend of the artist, and his environment, an intimate series of honest and unstaged photographs that show small but meaningful moments, cloth-bound hard cover, 23 x 26 cm, 48 not numbered pages, Atlanta 2002
ISBN: 978-0-9701656-3-3
