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Traces
Michael Whittington
March 7th - 29th 2008preview friday 7th March 7-9pm
'Traces' is a body of work that utilizes the formal capacities of the lens made image to explore the happenings of people going about their daily lives in public places. In this new body of work I am interested in using long exposures to highlight how public and every day environments can also reveal a sublime & metaphysical account of what exists beyond the understanding of the human eye.
Since September 11 and more recently July 7, the need for the camera and in particular the surveillance camera is ever more paramount. The video camera has replaced the journalists' camera as the trusted conveyor of truth. In our post modern world is a common view that the surveillance camera captures human movement in an objective way and is understood by the world as a mechanical tool for showing evidence of actual and real events. In a similar way, in 'Traces', each image is a time based exposure unaltered by digital technologies. And as such the lens made image retains its integrity of subject matter. It is understood that since the invention of digital technologies photography can now be manipulated to represent any kind of fiction and in this way the only true photograph of events actual and real, once again, are captured by the surveillance camera. In a psychological journey through the underground platforms, tunnels and walkways my photographs challenge this assumption.
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