Oklahoma City-Beginning on July 3, 2020, JRB Art at The Elms will host the show “Photography and Place: Fragments of the World,” organized by New York Based Curator, Julie Maguire, Director of the Brett Weston Archives. This show has been organized by New York Based Curator, Julie Maguire, Director of the Brett Weston Archives and will be on display until August 31, 2020. 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 factor into what the viewer sees as a specific place. Photographs have shaped our perception of the world. There are places we will know only through photographic representation. If I a made a bit money at the end of the day, it would be a bonus.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 ceded 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. ![]() ![]() Ideally it would be the freedom to be constantly taking photos and having an excuse to tear round the globe. I always wanted to travel and I always loved drawing/photography, and thus always had it in my mind I would try and do something that would enable me to do both. Where do you want to end up in terms of work? If a photo turns out a certain way, it is usually totally by accident. Obviously every photo is personal to me in some way, but it is the need to try and grab a single moment or feeling which is far more exciting. But I rarely set out to make a photo mean something, in that thinking process it becomes a contrived meaning. I don’t think my view of my pictures should be the correct one, the best thing about art is that people invest their own meaning into it. I find it weird when people ask me what a photo means, and if they do, I always lie and say it is about sex. I definitely am not a ‘dark’ person, I am stupidly optimistic about most things to be honest. It is the spontaneity which is the most important, the unplanned which always work best. The best time to photograph someone is when they have had barely any sleep and look rough as hell, because at least then you are getting them, not something that is planned. They make nice photos, but nothing that is going to make you stop and stare. To be honest smiley people don’t make good photos. I wouldn’t say I set out to be dark, but maybe it is an aesthetic. I wish I could claim to have some desperately murky past to make me seem far more interesting, but yeah it was pretty normal. Your images are all quite dark, can you tell us a little about that? It stresses me out to leave the house without a camera. But yeah I have always been doodling and painting, taking photos has become more and more of an obsession. No, I was a massive drawer, and spent much of my childhood obsessively drawing dragons, I was always that peculiar kid in the library reading the hobbit slightly too obsessively. Most of my friends have become immune to having a camera shoved in their face. Now I take photos as an addict, I need a camera on me and I constantly need to think about the next photo. ![]() Without him I would still be stuck potatoshoping photos to death, he forced me to think about the actual taking of the photo rather than slapping on the photoshop. I need to mention the photographer Brett Walker, who has undoubtably shaped my work, the man is an absolute genius, and has been mentoring me for the last few years. ![]() Flickr helped a lot though, I couldn’t have really asked for a better source of inspiration, which is being constantly updated. I can’t quite remember why, but it resulted in lots of shit photos of flowers, dogs, old people, and street signs.
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