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Interview on Kiss My Culture
Interview on Plussixfive
Interview and video on Time Out
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My Residue series attempts to lift the veil of modern city life, with the aim to reveal the “beauty of impermanence”.
I feel that many of us have been conditioned into thinking that everything should last forever, while in reality all there is is continuous change.
Resisting this is futile, yet we still try to feed the illusion. Buildings seem to be the most permanent objects in our lives – more so than phones, cars or people – however, this is an illusion as well. This became the starting point for my Residue series; to show buildings through a layer of decay and change, and to arrive at the notion that everything is a process, and that actually, there is beauty and comfort in that realisation.
Photography is often seen as a realistic and objective medium: “The camera doesn’t lie”. I would argue that it does “lie” as it imitates the human eye and therefore captures stills of our own illusions. For the Residue series I aimed to create images that are highly subjective by applying a praxis that allows for chance to play a large role, leading to emotive rather than objective works.
The images were generated without relying on digital trickery: they are not photoshopped nor are they double exposures. No prepared prints or props were used. All are single exposures using just a camera and a glass panel, and simply capturing what was actually there, at that very moment. I searched for weathered walls in the vicinities of urban sprawl to capture the reflection of the buildings against these walls. Reflecting one reality into another.
Interview on Kiss My Culture
Interview on Plussixfive
Interview and video on Time Out
—————-
My Residue series attempts to lift the veil of modern city life, with the aim to reveal the “beauty of impermanence”.
I feel that many of us have been conditioned into thinking that everything should last forever, while in reality all there is is continuous change.
Resisting this is futile, yet we still try to feed the illusion. Buildings seem to be the most permanent objects in our lives – more so than phones, cars or people – however, this is an illusion as well. This became the starting point for my Residue series; to show buildings through a layer of decay and change, and to arrive at the notion that everything is a process, and that actually, there is beauty and comfort in that realisation.
Photography is often seen as a realistic and objective medium: “The camera doesn’t lie”. I would argue that it does “lie” as it imitates the human eye and therefore captures stills of our own illusions. For the Residue series I aimed to create images that are highly subjective by applying a praxis that allows for chance to play a large role, leading to emotive rather than objective works.
The images were generated without relying on digital trickery: they are not photoshopped nor are they double exposures. No prepared prints or props were used. All are single exposures using just a camera and a glass panel, and simply capturing what was actually there, at that very moment. I searched for weathered walls in the vicinities of urban sprawl to capture the reflection of the buildings against these walls. Reflecting one reality into another.