For the venice piece...
The Evaluation of Space Part: 7a
'Tourist Publicity shoots working composition.'
Or:
"The understanding of photographic
compositions in all stages of image
making."
“Possession of a camera does not licence intrusion, as it does in this society whether people like it or not.”
‘On Photography’ Susan Sontag, P.171
The Following passages were emailed to the Hannah Barry Gallery in response to an invite to propose a piece of work for the Peckham Pavilion. An Exhibition that would be held in Venice during the 53rd Venice Biennale, please visit www.peckhampavilion.com.
“We always see landscape and photography as a monumental event. Usually some ore inspiring print that make you think how amazing the world around us is from standing 5 meters back from the wall. Some pretty picture, all lovely and we don't know why?
I would like to submit the idea that we find out why we find this lovely, fascinating and all the other bourgeois ideals that we see in such images. Taking it rights back to the start of the photographic process: The Negative (or in this case, the transparency.)
Instead of standing back from the print we should be looking closely at the composition, the idea behind the image and it's purpose of the photograph it self... not just a pretty picture.
So i propose two 5x4 light boxes, each with a single 35mm transparency. Shot for a commercial purpose, over-layed with a piece of tracing paper, with marked out lines of the final finished piece (article, advertising print, etc.). Showing the cropping, dynamic’s of the image, that is not normally shown. An incite into the workings of the final 'pretty picture' and the route it has to take for the public to view it.”
By Oliver Griffin