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Liverpool River of Lights festival
Last weekend I spent two nights at the, now annual, River of Lights festival – two nights because on the Friday there were two artworks that I hadn’t been able to find. This year, more of the ten artworks were immersive – designed to allow visitors to wander around, touch and, in some cases, listen to. It was more difficult, because of this, to photograph the artworks without including the people interacting with them, but the festival is, after all, for visitors rather than for photographers. In any case, including the families simply made for a different kind of photography. There was one exhibit – Continuum – that I found particular difficult to photograph. It comprises a group of tall, cuboid, mirrored columns, poorly illuminated along the edges. People passing between the columns are reflected in them and so their passing makes it doubly difficult to photograph the artwork.
I’ve not listed the various installations – there is plenty of information online. For anyone who has been, some of my photos may look different from their experience because the colours and, in some cases, the shapes of some of the artworks change from moment to moment.
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Liverpool River of Lights festival
Last weekend I spent two nights at the, now annual, River of Lights festival – two nights because on the Friday there were two artworks that I hadn’t been able to find. This year, more of the ten artworks were immersive – designed to allow visitors to wander around, touch and, in some cases, listen to. It was more difficult, because of this, to photograph the artworks without including the people interacting with them, but the festival is, after all, for visitors rather than for photographers. In any case, including the families simply made for a different kind of photography. There was one exhibit – Continuum – that I found particular difficult to photograph. It comprises a group of tall, cuboid, mirrored columns, poorly illuminated along the edges. People passing between the columns are reflected in them and so their passing makes it doubly difficult to photograph the artwork.
I’ve not listed the various installations – there is plenty of information online. For anyone who has been, some of my photos may look different from their experience because the colours and, in some cases, the shapes of some of the artworks change from moment to moment.