About
this series of work:
Creating
this work is quite a layered process that utilizes traditional
methods and skills. We start by photographing the subject matter;
for example we photographed people on the streets of London
and iconic London buildings. We fabricated sculptures based
on these original photographs. The sculptures were then set
up in various compositions in different contexts and then re-photographed
with a lovely old medium format camera. We clearly state that
they are photographed sculptures to eliminate the idea that
the images have been constructed in Photoshop.
The
people were originally photographed in busy urban areas such
as Liverpool Street Station and Oxford Street London. We have
captured the body language and movement of people in the throes
of their busy working lives. We have then transformed the context
by photographing them in open spaces and sometimes vast, spectacular
and seemingly endless landscapes.
So far we have made prints of this work and large-scale light
boxes. (See light-box images). The size of the largest light-box
pictured is 194.5 X 135 X 10 cm. The smaller light-box is 82.5
X 62 X 13.5 cm. High quality Duratrans (transparency for lightbox)
have been made for the light boxes. Two of the light-boxes pictured
are re-used advertising displays from Kings Cross Station. We
have chosen to re-use existing boxes, shifting the context and
meaning of a familiar urban object.
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