Fragments
“To collect photographs is to collect the world”
- Sontag, S (1979). On Photography. 3rd ed. Harmondsworth: pg 3
A lot of my photographic work concerns the human relationship with natural landscapes.
This piece of work reflects the common human experience and memory of a place. Despite attempts by media (drawing, painting, photography) to extend this experience, nothing can replace that, and my images are representative of the fragments of experience that are extracted from a place.
The popular cultural act of photographing these often pre-determined beauty spots is to create evidence. To prove that we took part in the spectacle, and take a souvenir based on mimicry of how these locations are often seen on postcards, calendars, and through our peers’ souvenir photographs.
The interrupted and unusual aesthetic reflects the act of photographing and also the state of memory of a place, as only certain aspects draw attention and are given significance. The waterfall is the attraction and thus what must be photographed, collected and remembered. The space around it is deemed irrelevant.
2013
