honorable mention
Frankie Mcallister united kingdom
title
Dividing Lines
The fundamental theme is the complete incongruity of applying something artificial, essentially single dimensional, to a multi-dimensional and natural situation incorporating community, history, geology and geography. The presumption that we (‘man’) can divide up the elements of rock, air and sea. The work itself takes photographs of natural scenes from landscape and disrupts them, rendering them artificial and ‘constructed’. I have used various processes; including conversion to unnatural colours, inversion to negative, conversion to black and white, or applying ‘pretty’ but unnatural colours to scenes to make them other than they are, cutting them up and layering them in unnatural ways and attempting to reduce them to the one or two dimensional page.
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entry description
These images are from 'Dividing Lines – Artificial Constructs', a series exploring what it means to impose borders on geography. The series relates specifically to issues surrounding the border between northern and southern Ireland, but can also be extended to apply to many similar situations around the world.The fundamental theme is the complete incongruity of applying something artificial, essentially single dimensional, to a multi-dimensional and natural situation incorporating community, history, geology and geography. The presumption that we (‘man’) can divide up the elements of rock, air and sea. The work itself takes photographs of natural scenes from landscape and disrupts them, rendering them artificial and ‘constructed’. I have used various processes; including conversion to unnatural colours, inversion to negative, conversion to black and white, or applying ‘pretty’ but unnatural colours to scenes to make them other than they are, cutting them up and layering them in unnatural ways and attempting to reduce them to the one or two dimensional page.
about the photographer
London based (non-professional) photographer concentrating primarily on urban landscapes, impressionist landscapes and documentary.back to gallery