I really like the constraints of film. The slowness of setting up. The focus, concentration, looking, as one may only have a few frames to do the job at hand.
Artist as Higher Lifer
I think the sense of ‘the past as a foreign country’ really originates in Bruegel’s paintings, at least for us today.
Marks of Absence: Technology, Identity and the Idealised Body in The Body Electric
The Body Electric exhibition extends the physical, ‘domestic’, everyday image of ourselves, and disappears it by removing traces of the body. The residue is the flickering light.
The Distance that Cannot be Photographed
At the female convict sites I used to wonder where the history has gone. The answer I ended up with was twofold – it’s either disappeared into the ground or vanished into the air.
Past, Present and Illusion in Hamish Tocher’s Photography
There’s a visceral narcissism in the early Renaissance, a kind of youthful full-of-the-joys-of vigour, a really sexy, peachy sense of bodies – that is what clicks so nicely with the fashion images that I’ve been comparing it with.
