| |
Kate Mellor continues to add to
the personal project Close to Home. She says, " I wanted
to photograph things that were nearer to me, to look at where
I live and the people around me. I was fed up of distance. I
wanted to look at roots - the locality where I put down roots
and also to consider the roots of photography - the early photographers
and the photographic process."
She made portraits of her friends within the landscape where
they live using a plate camera and Polaroid negative film, processing
on site to view results and to make direct reference to the
process that the 19c pioneers used. By asking the friends to
wear more formal clothes she not only reflects the conventions
of early studio photography with their figurative backdrops
but she asks questions about our position in relation to this
kind of landscape, what it has come to represent to us. The
photograph which introduces the project, George at Hebden Bridge
Station, is after August Sander's portrait of the painter Anton
Räderscheidt in Cologne.
See Sander's portrait. at www.amber-online.com/gallery/exhibition6/image6-674.html
|
|
