NOIR 2014 -
Alas, a new year and a renewed enthusiasm in producing new visuals just came about from a casual stroll along a sunny boulevard in France in late March.
These few initial diptychs sets the tone for a new direction, which I intend to embark this year, and which I hope to work on, in parallel to the other unfinished series.
Darkness, in the form of the negative space, to me, symbolises the 'quiet silence' of an image. Like the 'Ma' in Japanese art, the space in between subjects, depicts an 'interval' or the consciousness of space. In colour photography however, there are often too much information and noise which contradicts and confuses the viewer, unless captured skilfully and sympathetically. I always say that colour photography is extremely difficult to achieve well.
LUMINA for me, was an exercise in colour which I have started in 2009, completed and printed in 2011. Having told myself that whilst it had been an adventure delving into abstract colours and shapes of the observed world which surrounds me, I have always longed to produce a black & white series with the same distinct DNA as LUMINA.. Since MUSEO was completed in 2008, it is time to go 'back to black' as it were.
In NOIR I know what I want. I want to make photographs as individual objets d'art, each with a rich textural feel, and of 'high' symbolism inherent. Like an amazingly fine gold-weaved cloth only to be worn by the Kings of the old courts. I am exploring the impact of the negative space set against a precisely chosen image which is further enhanced by it's dramatic content. Call it an experiment.
That is how I want my viewers to react.
More to come.
These few initial diptychs sets the tone for a new direction, which I intend to embark this year, and which I hope to work on, in parallel to the other unfinished series.
Darkness, in the form of the negative space, to me, symbolises the 'quiet silence' of an image. Like the 'Ma' in Japanese art, the space in between subjects, depicts an 'interval' or the consciousness of space. In colour photography however, there are often too much information and noise which contradicts and confuses the viewer, unless captured skilfully and sympathetically. I always say that colour photography is extremely difficult to achieve well.
LUMINA for me, was an exercise in colour which I have started in 2009, completed and printed in 2011. Having told myself that whilst it had been an adventure delving into abstract colours and shapes of the observed world which surrounds me, I have always longed to produce a black & white series with the same distinct DNA as LUMINA.. Since MUSEO was completed in 2008, it is time to go 'back to black' as it were.
In NOIR I know what I want. I want to make photographs as individual objets d'art, each with a rich textural feel, and of 'high' symbolism inherent. Like an amazingly fine gold-weaved cloth only to be worn by the Kings of the old courts. I am exploring the impact of the negative space set against a precisely chosen image which is further enhanced by it's dramatic content. Call it an experiment.
That is how I want my viewers to react.
More to come.
