Inner City Wilderness

Saturday, 4 December 2010

Breath 2.35

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Anonymous24 January 2011 at 01:51
The two images juxtaposed in this photo seem rather well chosen - the trees showing against the black of the two figures' torsos are evocative of bronchi, that the natural trees are bare and transposed into the place of the lungs on what are clearly city dwellers seems to make an effective comment on the tension between nature and the built environment. There seems to be an invitation to read urban life as imposing an artificial 'winter' upon man's natural rhythms, although the fact that the two figures can be seen to be wearing winter clothes tells against such a reading of lack of concession to nature. The image seems to relate well to your concept of city-wilderness: the concept and the images could be said to be 'bilingual' yet not incompatible.
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The background:

This is the blog leading to my final year project studying Film and Photography at Napier University in Edinburgh. The finished project is aimed for an exhibition/gallery audience.

It would be great if you post me some feedback. I would love to hear, if you do like my work or not.

I utilise the technique of double exposure and by combining the two in general contrary spaces and atmospheres, I think that I have found a third space. One that emerges from the two real and visitable spaces to a surreal and theoretical space that only can be experienced in the photographs.

The photographs – I think – have a surreal look but also touch on several different genres. Documentary, social, covert, landscape, cityscape, contemporary-critical genres etc.

In this project, my pictures are not about the perfect lighting or an image frozen in time. It is about mood, atmosphere, new combinations and merging two different realities to a third one, which might be discovered by my audience. My work is contemporary because it visualises that nothing is constant. Everything is changing.

If you managed to read so far, you probably know now enough about the background. It’s not compulsory to read all of what it’s written here. But here you go, if you want:

Some of the richness and debt I do think results in the fact that not all the details are visible on first sight. The mixture of the ‘natural’ and the ‘constructed’, commercial spaces can also be seen as a metaphor of how city people can behave, becoming increasingly unaware of their own natural surroundings

My aim is still to work in a way, where I can experiment and finding out about pictures, that I only can control to a certain degree. The purpose for this is to make the whole process more organic, more real and more FUN.

I do believe that my images transmit an independent mood and an interesting mixture of different genres. The visualisation of mixing different visuals together and revealing the constant flux and change, raise and decay of our surroundings and us as persons is an important contemporary challenge.