honorable mention
Streetmax 21 united kingdom
title
281218-270323
satisfactory outcomes in real time. Extensively, I’ve used photographic layering to
make a comment about aspects of human behavior in cities. It’s a particular
technique I’ve chosen, to make a body of work which, I feel, gives visual expression
to the human condition now.
In these photographs, the built environment, static and
inanimate, is the stage in which a walking choreography is played out. The humans,
who bring the animate, are spatially arranged as though carefully directed. They
appear to have been preconditioned to act like automatons or self-absorbed
passers-by uncannily acting out parts in mental isolation.
I’m looking for rhythm in moving figures and to have them separated visually within
plastic space. In a landscape rendered anew by technological change, it’s the
spaces between the human inhabitants that are equally likely to control the narrative.
Much like Giorgio Morandi's poetry of the mundane, those spaces between are
arguably as important as the humans themselves. Even though I’m working in a real
environment, shooting it in this way can give it an unreal look. Perhaps the influence
of digital technology on the City is already illustrating the boundary between the real
and the virtual world, like Goddard’s Alphaville which, through deft use of real
locations, transformed a real city into a science fictional one.
The prevalence of digital technology has shifted our sense of what it is to
belong to a community. We read, write, hear and see differently because of it. It
follows therefore, that I should be documenting the city differently and in the process
attempting a different form of street photography.
My street work has been shown in various festivals and group shows internationally. Having been selected as the Juror’s Pick in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards in 2017, I’ve gone on to win several awards including, the series winner at PHoS Athens, and the Best Series award at Streetfoto, San Francisco, in 2017, as well as being the Street category winner of the Neutral Density Awards and series winner in the 13th Pollux Awards, Street category in 2019. I’ve shown also in a number of galleries in the United Kingdom, United States, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Spain. In 2020, I became a member of the street photography collective iN-PUBLiC, and was included in its first online exhibition “The Square Mile”.
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entry description
Adhering to the rules of candid street photography, I often 'build' shots by waiting forsatisfactory outcomes in real time. Extensively, I’ve used photographic layering to
make a comment about aspects of human behavior in cities. It’s a particular
technique I’ve chosen, to make a body of work which, I feel, gives visual expression
to the human condition now.
In these photographs, the built environment, static and
inanimate, is the stage in which a walking choreography is played out. The humans,
who bring the animate, are spatially arranged as though carefully directed. They
appear to have been preconditioned to act like automatons or self-absorbed
passers-by uncannily acting out parts in mental isolation.
I’m looking for rhythm in moving figures and to have them separated visually within
plastic space. In a landscape rendered anew by technological change, it’s the
spaces between the human inhabitants that are equally likely to control the narrative.
Much like Giorgio Morandi's poetry of the mundane, those spaces between are
arguably as important as the humans themselves. Even though I’m working in a real
environment, shooting it in this way can give it an unreal look. Perhaps the influence
of digital technology on the City is already illustrating the boundary between the real
and the virtual world, like Goddard’s Alphaville which, through deft use of real
locations, transformed a real city into a science fictional one.
The prevalence of digital technology has shifted our sense of what it is to
belong to a community. We read, write, hear and see differently because of it. It
follows therefore, that I should be documenting the city differently and in the process
attempting a different form of street photography.
about the photographer
Born in Dundee, Scotland.My street work has been shown in various festivals and group shows internationally. Having been selected as the Juror’s Pick in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards in 2017, I’ve gone on to win several awards including, the series winner at PHoS Athens, and the Best Series award at Streetfoto, San Francisco, in 2017, as well as being the Street category winner of the Neutral Density Awards and series winner in the 13th Pollux Awards, Street category in 2019. I’ve shown also in a number of galleries in the United Kingdom, United States, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Spain. In 2020, I became a member of the street photography collective iN-PUBLiC, and was included in its first online exhibition “The Square Mile”.
https://streetmax21.com/
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