“…we are always in a space where the tension between
still and moving images refuses to resolve itself, as the two media, mimicking
each other in a compulsive dance of desire, identification, and rejection, seem
unable either fully to incorporate each other or to let each other go”(Beckman
2008, p. 143)
As the quotation suggests, photography and cinema, despite their own
distinctions are intrinsically linked and can never let each other go. I have always been interested in the
relationship between photography, cinema and the affect upon the viewer. Their
distinctions and overlaps allow for a space between the two, where these qualities
can be utilised to create work. Our encounters with both mediums allows for the interpretation of the
imagery we see, to hold the possibility of being both photographic and
cinematic simultaneously.
In this project this possibility is explored, as photographs are
projected and placed into a cinema like environment. The viewer’s
interpretation of the image on screen then becomes directed through the
simulation of experience. In this
layered process of looking, the viewer must carefully consider what it is they
are looking at, and through the viewer, what is just photographic can be perhaps
pushed into the realms of cinema.
Okay, so you don't exactly get the full impression they make in print, imagine these bigger.. 1.68 metres x 1.18 metres to be exact, however, if you wanted to see them they are up until the 3rd June at 27 Castle Gate, Nottingham, NG1 7AR.
The shows have been amazing, and everyone in my year has done such impressive work, so please also visit: www.wearespectrum.co.uk
