honorable mention
Andrew Brooks united kingdom
Photo © Andrew Brooks
title
Cathedral Caverns
This forms part of a continuing project exploring and documenting forgotten and abandoned industrial spaces and searching for signs of industry and the effect of man that still remains. I have visited sites in Iceland, the Netherlands, Scotland, England and the USA since 2008 to build this body of work.
I’m interested in the history and stories of locations. Getting lost amongst and within the buildings, cityscapes and landscapes, I archive the forgotten spaces to tell the tales of these sites.
As a reaction to a life spent living in and photographing the city I’m driven to explore and document the city but also in parallel, the natural environment. The process is intuitive; about being and experiencing and then showing how this felt through images and film. The sublime is a key concept within my process and output, as I aim to understand its context within alternative locations. Taking inspiration from paintings within the Romantic era, I use small details and studies of the landscape to create larger scale works that become my interpretation of a location.
Through the act of building images, I aim to capture the forms and rhythms of nature and the city. Often as imagined or re-imagined scenes, I aim to create a heightened sense of place and the audience's interaction with it.
In my practice I use photography, film and digital technology as a prism for seeing and experiencing the world, particularly the natural and urban landscape. I then process and build on what I’ve recorded, presenting this to an audience through immersive experiences.
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entry description
The Cathedral Caverns, close to the valley of Little Langdale in the English Lake District. The cavern is part of a network of disused inter-linked quarries for green slate.This forms part of a continuing project exploring and documenting forgotten and abandoned industrial spaces and searching for signs of industry and the effect of man that still remains. I have visited sites in Iceland, the Netherlands, Scotland, England and the USA since 2008 to build this body of work.
about the photographer
Based in Manchester, UK.I’m interested in the history and stories of locations. Getting lost amongst and within the buildings, cityscapes and landscapes, I archive the forgotten spaces to tell the tales of these sites.
As a reaction to a life spent living in and photographing the city I’m driven to explore and document the city but also in parallel, the natural environment. The process is intuitive; about being and experiencing and then showing how this felt through images and film. The sublime is a key concept within my process and output, as I aim to understand its context within alternative locations. Taking inspiration from paintings within the Romantic era, I use small details and studies of the landscape to create larger scale works that become my interpretation of a location.
Through the act of building images, I aim to capture the forms and rhythms of nature and the city. Often as imagined or re-imagined scenes, I aim to create a heightened sense of place and the audience's interaction with it.
In my practice I use photography, film and digital technology as a prism for seeing and experiencing the world, particularly the natural and urban landscape. I then process and build on what I’ve recorded, presenting this to an audience through immersive experiences.
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