A Conversation With Myself
This recent collection of imagery is a complete and intentional rerouting and overhaul of my practice with photography up until now. It is both a reevaluation of my intent and reasoning as a photographer and visual artist; and my understanding of, and deeply felt appreciation for the history of photographic practices.
I believe that a pioneering, shifting paradigm within the continued exploration of photographic practices can be touched upon and realised through this kind of thoughtful analysis.
As I continue to engage with my natural surroundings I feel more and more compelled to unearth and dissolve the popular myth of merely fleeting self serving technical approaches to photographing any given subject. My understanding of this kind of 'non practice of photography' as purely for the purposes of appropriating, hijacking, or falsifying both natural, and man made views brings into question my reappraisal of my own voice. These appropriations to my mind are all too quickly boxed into - further manipulated, fabricated, marginal, very narrowly defined interpretations of something true in spirit and original that exists independently from this kind of contrived approach altogether. Something that is in fact real and uninterrupted and existing in it's own right.
The final image in that instance has been pleasantly and naively observed as something to be congratulated or championed as being technically flawless, and therefore complete in its execution. Something that exists autonomously - and as a digital prototype is a further manipulation that falsely compares itself to being there, and 'in a real state'.
My approach is also motivated by the growing need to probe further into my own historical and personal typography. My reappraisal of an infinite number of layers. Intent, meaning, and any occasional dream like interpretation of a number of different photographic practices that may have spoken to me directly at one time or another.
Approaches that may have undercut, simulated, and imitated themselves in an effort to elevate the medium to the status of high art. Or to be verified as being conceptual - post modern contemporary photography.
You could call this approach as being overtly anti-photography, and therefore problematic in itself. However, I like to think of it as both a greater personal exploration, and a re-appraisal of my process of learning. By Intentionally questioning the limits of expression with what may or may not come into plain view in front of me as I start again from the beginning.
A Conversation With Myself
This recent collection of imagery is a complete and intentional rerouting and overhaul of my practice with photography up until now. It is both a reevaluation of my intent and reasoning as a photographer and visual artist; and my understanding of, and deeply felt appreciation for the history of photographic practices.
I believe that a pioneering, shifting paradigm within the continued exploration of photographic practices can be touched upon and realised through this kind of thoughtful analysis.
As I continue to engage with my natural surroundings I feel more and more compelled to unearth and dissolve the popular myth of merely fleeting self serving technical approaches to photographing any given subject. My understanding of this kind of 'non practice of photography' as purely for the purposes of appropriating, hijacking, or falsifying both natural, and man made views brings into question my reappraisal of my own voice. These appropriations to my mind are all too quickly boxed into - further manipulated, fabricated, marginal, very narrowly defined interpretations of something true in spirit and original that exists independently from this kind of contrived approach altogether. Something that is in fact real and uninterrupted and existing in it's own right.
The final image in that instance has been pleasantly and naively observed as something to be congratulated or championed as being technically flawless, and therefore complete in its execution. Something that exists autonomously - and as a digital prototype is a further manipulation that falsely compares itself to being there, and 'in a real state'.
My approach is also motivated by the growing need to probe further into my own historical and personal typography. My reappraisal of an infinite number of layers. Intent, meaning, and any occasional dream like interpretation of a number of different photographic practices that may have spoken to me directly at one time or another.
Approaches that may have undercut, simulated, and imitated themselves in an effort to elevate the medium to the status of high art. Or to be verified as being conceptual - post modern contemporary photography.
You could call this approach as being overtly anti-photography, and therefore problematic in itself. However, I like to think of it as both a greater personal exploration, and a re-appraisal of my process of learning. By Intentionally questioning the limits of expression with what may or may not come into plain view in front of me as I start again from the beginning.