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Flowers in an Urban Garden
I come from a family of gardeners. To my mind, really good ones. Every inch of available land was cultivated, discussed, worked over, loved and cared for. For the most part these are the front and back gardens of family homes. In return these micro green spaces provided us with vegetables, herbs, colour, aroma and much more importantly in my opinion, a place to play. Of course I helped out as a child. Helpfulness was short lived, tolerated but not really helpful at all. I was more into my drawing. From these loved ones I learned something about colour and form. All through flora. They gardened, arranged, harvested and ate.
It is different now. It was my uncle who opened my eyes to the needs of our shared environment. Through him and his membership of Greenpeace, I first learnt something about myself but at that time I didn’t understand or I couldn’t grasp is a young person. It confused me. “Tidy your garden.” It finally make sense. I am not anything like as great a thinker as I may wish. I am rarely original in my ideas. Ideas grow. As they grow so do I. So do my pictures.
These flora portraits are my delight. TERRA INCOGNITA is an ongoing urban botanical exploration of my city home, Berlin, with occasional trips out of town. My pictures are all daylight, made in city green spaces, with virtually no post processing. I like to think of our parks and gardens as "Gardens for the gardenless"
Alles liebe aus dem Baumhaus
I am really excited to announce the dates of my first solo London exhibition of photography this coming autumn @ The Last Supper, 42 Webbs Road, SW11 6SF
TERRA INCOGNITA
Photographs by
GRANT SIMON ROGERS
10 October - 03 November 2018
Opening reception on the evening of 11th October 2018.
I would love to see you there. x