Impromptu Pictures

Remember these streets?

I took photos through fences on the afternoon of Easter Sunday.

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Impromptu Pictures

Earlier this month I took some photos for a musical theatre poster, I finally had a look through them today and there are some pretty cool pictures there.  It was a little raunchy.  I might share pictures next year.

I visited Oamaru with my parents and we made these photos:

And last weekend, I decided to run a film through my Holga, which hasn't happened in a while. Parts of town were closed due to some earthquake damage, and they're still pulling down the building that was deemed unsafe after the bigger one in September.

Impromptu Pictures

I liked the set of pictures I took at University the other week so I went back and took some more.  In the first picture you can see a light leak on the bottom of the right side. Delightful.  I'd love to take many more pictures like this but the cost of film and processing is something I need to take into account, and my digital camera never quite cuts it.

Impromptu Pictures

Today I thought about doing some study but went to take some pictures instead.  The light seemed quite neat and I wanted to make use of it, so I walked around my university campus and took 10 pictures (5 are below).

Last month I was looking at the work of German photographer Thomas Struth.  I will borrow some words from Guy Tosatto - Thomas Struth has, for more than twenty years now, dedicated himself to recording the urban landscapes of the New World, which were born with photography, and those of the Old World, haunted by the ghosts of history. ... in this austere and dispassionate mediation on towns, we find an inquiry into time, a time that only photography seems capable of revealing.  I find the camera's ability to investigate very fascinating.  To portray a subject without some sort of predisposed view can be hard (like when positioning the camera), and I find the objective style of German photographers to be quite curious.

I'll talk more about Struth later.  For now, some pictures, the blurred people are a reference to Struth's Museum Photographs.

From the Archives

Architecture is one of those subjects that I enjoy, but don't understand.  I often take photos of the inside and outside of buildings, and I like them, but it's difficult for me to figure out why I like the pictures.  Buildings have lines and shapes that make them interesting, with symmetrical and asymmetrical aspects that change with our differing perspective, depending on where we're standing.  Buildings can be appreciated in reality and in pictures, but often in pictures we isolate certain elements of interest, and we can eliminate the context that is the surrounding area.

HSBC Building (under construction), Christchurch

2008

From the Archives

From a short project at art school

Erskine & Commerce buildings, University of Canterbury

2009