Ghostplay

"Beginning with Bobcats, depicting the rites of passage of a girls' softball team, and moving to Gladiators, displaying basketball in a combative pit of racial divide, photographer Eric Payson has gone one step further in his exploration of the media and America's obsession with sports as entertainment, voyeurism, and violence with Ghostplay. In Payson's electrifying new work, college football's raw beauty rises to the surface in photographs taken directly from the television screen; images morph into each other and expressions are magnified as they are frozen in time. Ghostplay examines the…