Time/Space/Collision

Some rhetoric

Throughout my discoveries with photographing objects and events, I have challenged myself to work through different techniques, using mistakes along with intentions, in order to re-interpret the cliches of conventional photography.

The challenge of attempting to paint/record an image of TIME vs POSITION has been my main goal. By using multiple images and crushing them together, by longer exposure, by combining zooming techniques with longer exposures, colour pushing in post-production, I am closer to that goal than ever before.

Enjoy the festival.

Photography is just fake news. We are all guilty of being cultural Errorists.

We live in a blur, yet it is recorded in split second precision, taking snippets out of context, thus producing fake news.

I like to fake it with the best of them.

The Art of Blur

Within the space of a second, the earth and everything we see (and that which we do not notice), has travelled to a new location with a new colour contrast. The motion of everything is imperceptible as we have adjusted our senses to move memory along with this unceasing celestial dance. In my humblest way, I am attempting to document this attached motion and to return it to a static two dimensional page. For one brief moment the world has changed and then captured in its dance …

Thawed moments

The opposite to a frozen moment, where light melts into a wonderful puddle of suggestion, where the packaged format dissolves into the curious melting moment of the pure ingredients

When something moves through a space, it exists for only that moment and then is no longer a presence. Was it really there? Was it ever there? What was it if and when it was there? A sequence of shapes that vaporise around static objects.

Remember the first photograph ever taken of a person? - it was a street scene, exposed for a length of time in order for the light to penetrate the gelatine on the plate of reactive glass. During the exposure, the street was crowded with people scurrying to and fro except for one soul who stood rooted to his spot barely twitching. As the exposure needed time to record an object, every moving thing was erased by the background light except for this one transfixed soul whose presence was recorded for posterity. Everything else was if they never existed.

It is this quandary that I immerse myself into with my “Spectres” series.

Light & Energy

The concept of time and motion is explored with this series from the point of a light source being a pencil and with it, imagery is drawn.

The eternal question unanswered: What is Light?

The Tree

Once more time and space is condensed to a singular moment - here are timbers within our own backyards shown in their deconstructions and the emergence of an undiscovered galaxy. The act of shooting various angles of the same object and crushing them together rearranges the depth of detail, adding a third, nay, fourth dimension to the flat 2 dimensional image.

Drawing with Photography

Using the camera as a pencil, attempting to break the conventionality of documentary photography back into the warmth and geniality of hand-drawn imagery.

Concertina is a play of pattern created from flipping slivers of imagery on its axis allowing the viewer to revisit a normal image over and over in an aesthetic pleasure-field. The drama created introduces a wonderfully new invention and universe.