What I love about street photography is its spontaneity, so I'm not usuallyout hunting for an image; it's more something I notice naturally when outexploring. I tend to look for interesting forms and colours that people may seeevery day of their lives but don't stop to notice. The colours may come fromnatural light that only exists for a very small portion of the day, orcontrasting colours that are man made. A lot of this tends to be fairly grittyto an extent, I can't really explain why this side of photography attracts me, andI guess it's just the style that I developed over time.
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In this series of drawings I am beginning to explore where my work could go next, building on the themes and characters that feature in my silent film Insomniac. Whereas the events in Insomniac mainly take place inside the mind of a character, the events in Demise will move into the experiences of others and the bleak post-industrial landscape that waits outside.
The visual style of Insomniac could be called a moving collage as camera footage is shown alongside animations created from 212 hand painted frames. The film is also divided into 4 acts designed to be shown simultaneously across 4 seperate screens. The silent, black and white visuals loop continuously becoming more out of sync so that different versions of this collage are being constantly created.
I made Insomniac because I wanted my still paintings to move and describe how the images look in my head. My work aspires to the depth and power of cinema, specifically film noir's expressionistic style of visually describing an individuals perspective.
