PRESS RELEASE
Since the inception of photography in the first half of the nineteenth century, there has been the perception that photographs are a faithful record of their subject matter. This idea seems to be even more deeply seeded when it is a place. When people are involved, there is an instinctive knowledge that they could be acting or “putting on a face” for the camera.
Photographs have shaped our perception of the world. There are places we will know only through photographic representation; places we will never see with our own eyes. We then rely on the photographer’s eye and their experience of the place they are documenting. The time of day a photographer shoots a specific place, the scene they choose to photograph, whether the intent is to show an abstraction of a particular spot, these all factors into what the viewer sees as a specific place.
The four artists included in this exhibition have all photographed places. Some with figures, some without. They all bring their unique perspective to their work and frame it through their eyes.
Looking at a photograph is the merging of the eyes of the viewer and the photographer as they try to cobble together fragments of the world.