As part of my Camera 3 assessment (studying at the Centre for Creative Photography) I produced a new series based on the Uluru and Sydney Harbour Bridge images included in this set. I deliberately played with the focal point, the figure/ground relationships, to create a unique (photographer’s) point of view …
My Artist Statement:
seeing
we all see
we all look
do we all see the same things in the same way?
anton chekhov said, ‘i have the feeling that i have seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants’
my photographic development is about seeing the elephants
seeing the angle, the pattern, the juxtaposition, the moment
watching light dance, change, reflect, highlight
exploring ways and views
stretching my technical and artistic skills
stephanie mills tells us that seeing is a gift that comes with practice
i have certainly practiced this term, refined my seeing, changed my perspectives
shot, reshot and shot again
this series represents 14 moments
captured in south australia, in march 2103
14 moments in iconic adelaide and surrounding places
14 moments where my photographer’s eye saw something unique, something others did not
14 moments where the main focus was less relevant than the colour or light or angle or aspect or object i framed
14 moments that the ‘where’ is there but not the focus
14 moments henry david thoreau would say illustrate his well known quote: it’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see
karen cornelius
26 march 2013
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