honorable mention
mark Kimber australia
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Nocturnes
Nocturnes
When I was a little boy my grandmother used to come over to stay with my brother and l on the nights that my mother and father went to the local football club cabaret nights.
These dances would invariably end around midnight and when my dad came home he would drive my grandmother back to her house. I would always accompany them, lying on the back seat of the car watching through the windows as the street lights passed by overhead.
After midnight everything was quiet, it seemed that almost the world was asleep and I would peer out of the car windows and watch the trees and bushes and dark houses flash by. The darkness broken here and there by the yellow window glow from homes set back into the dark, dense driveways.
What I've set out to do with this work is to recapture piece again. Somewhere within a world wrapped in darkness but full of strange possibilities and secrets.
It's not so much about one spot, it's about almost what's happening just out of the edge of the frame of the camera, no particular focus point just the feel of the night and the movement in the dark.
What I'm trying to find is on the periphery, what's almost just out of sight, a landscape as theatre built from the shapes of the night, the camera folding time upon itself again and again with a map crafted from vague edged but lasting memories as a guide.
2017
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Mark KimberNocturnes
When I was a little boy my grandmother used to come over to stay with my brother and l on the nights that my mother and father went to the local football club cabaret nights.
These dances would invariably end around midnight and when my dad came home he would drive my grandmother back to her house. I would always accompany them, lying on the back seat of the car watching through the windows as the street lights passed by overhead.
After midnight everything was quiet, it seemed that almost the world was asleep and I would peer out of the car windows and watch the trees and bushes and dark houses flash by. The darkness broken here and there by the yellow window glow from homes set back into the dark, dense driveways.
What I've set out to do with this work is to recapture piece again. Somewhere within a world wrapped in darkness but full of strange possibilities and secrets.
It's not so much about one spot, it's about almost what's happening just out of the edge of the frame of the camera, no particular focus point just the feel of the night and the movement in the dark.
What I'm trying to find is on the periphery, what's almost just out of sight, a landscape as theatre built from the shapes of the night, the camera folding time upon itself again and again with a map crafted from vague edged but lasting memories as a guide.
2017
about the photographer
Mark Kimber is currently Studio Head of Photography & New Media at the SA School of Art, University of South Australia. He completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at the SA School of Art, University of South Australia in 1981 and his Masters in Fine Art at the Chelsea School of Art, London in 2000. Kimber has exhibited extensively and has held more than 100 solo exhibitions & 85 group exhibitions over the past 25 years. He has exhibited nationally & internationally including London, Paris, Spain, New Zealand and the United States. In 2002 & 2004 he undertook a Polaroid Studio project in New York and in 2008 he was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to photograph renowned South Australian scientist Dr Basil Hetzel. Recent exhibitions include Phantasia, Photoquai Festival, Australian Embassy, Paris and Intangibles in Terra Australis, Kubo-Kuxta, San Sebastian, Spain. His work is represented in many major collections including the National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of SA; Art Gallery of WA; Sir Elton John Collection and Artbank. Mark Kimber is represented by Stills Gallery, Sydney.back to gallery
