

Ten Weeks
The project started as a contemplation of the architectural form of the ice shanty but became more than that over the 10 week duration of the ice fishing season where I live. I found beauty and community and I fell for both the day I stepped onto the ice. To be on the ice and share the cold and camaraderie, the wet and the silence alters one's sensibilities.
There is an inherent distance to photographing on the ice, it is a long way from shore to where the fish and the shanties are clustered and that distance is almost always a component of the photographs.
When I'm on the ice there is a closeness of community if there are fishers on the ice. I hear laughter and jokes, warnings, "someone's got a flag up." It is that contrast of the big emptiness and the coziness of the shanties that I want to bring home, the sense of a time that only lives a short while and then disappears entirely until the ice returns.
All images are available as 12 x 12" pigment prints made in an edition of 7 + 1 AP for $600 to $1300, depending on availability.
Please call: (312) 266-2350 for prices of specific pieces.
Prices are print only unless otherwise indicated.
Anson Jimenez Shack #3, Lake Monona, WI, 2010
Mike Rebholz, Anson Jimenez Shack #3, Lake Monona, WI, 2010
From the Ten Weeks series
12 x 12" pigment print
Edition of 7 + 1 APBarry Thoma Shack #3, Lake Mendota, WI, 2011
Mike Rebholz, Barry Thoma Shack #3, Lake Mendota, WI, 2011
From the Ten Weeks series
12 x 12" pigment print
Edition of 7 + 1 APCruz Brother's Shack #1, Lake Mendota, WI, 2011
Mike Rebholz, Cruz Brother's Shack #1, Lake Mendota, WI, 2011
From the Ten Weeks series
12 x 12" pigment print
Edition of 7 + 1 APHot Dog Hut, Lake Monona, WI, 2011
Mike Rebholz, Hot Dog Hut, Lake Monona, WI, 2011
From the Ten Weeks series
12 x 12" pigment print
Edition of 7 + 1 APUn-Named Red Shack, Lake Mendota, WI, 2011
Mike Rebholz, Un-Named Red Shack, Lake Mendota, WI, 2011
From the Ten Weeks series
12 x 12" pigment print
Edition of 7 + 1 APUn-Named Shack, Lake Monona, WI, 2011
Mike Rebholz, Un-Named Shack, Lake Monona, WI, 2011
From the Ten Weeks series
12 x 12" pigment print
Edition of 7 + 1 AP