17 Apr 2008

Current Project

I will be engaging with "The Object" through representation by photographing the everyday and often overlooked structures in the English landscape.

Last year I focused on Fast food outlets such as Pizza Hut, McDonalds, KFC etc. (These are not the English of all things, so I want to get away from the 'American modernist' but don't want to be compared to Martin Parr, therefor it is important I achieve a unique style and authorship).

To me modernism in photography is about the photograph as an object and as an aesthetic. Ultimately I would want to transcend a representation of the banal in to a photograph that is of high quality and craft, composed to every last detail and evoke feeling.

An image that appears to be 'about' something yet it is about nothing and everything.

Influences: Stephen Shore, Martin Parr, Eggleston, John Szarkowski, Gursky, Ruff, Lee Friedlander.

1 comment:

Uisdean Mòr said...

Some pictures to see where we are please...Hugh