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Tuesday,
27th May, 2003
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| Adrian
Pinckard - Photography |
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About
six years ago, I moved from urban Northampton into the rural
countryside of South Northamptonshire and so for some time now
my work has been concerned with dealing with this change and
an attempt at a deeper personal understanding of my new environment,
writes Adrian Pinckard.
One symptom of this is that I tend to make most of my pictures
in certain places, which fall into that "no man's land" between
the rural and the urban, places where evidence of human activity
is sparse yet significant.
Neglected
Such
places are often overlooked, forgotten or neglected because
no one quite knows what to do with them or because they appear
to serve no real purpose.
Sometimes they are in some kind of a process of transition,
waiting for something to happen or for someone to notice them.
I find such places charged with visual and metaphorical potential.
I overtly avoid making pictures in places that most people would
consider photogenic, picturesque or beautiful in the traditional
sense.
Such
places are of no interest to me photographically. This is because
in such places, the subject matter is too obvious, too overpowering
and by its very nature unequivocally "the subject".
Truth
In my work however, the subject that is photographed is not
necessarily what the pictures are about. This sounds contradictory
and can be difficult to accept, particularly with photography
whose power relies precisely upon its ability to record the
surface appearance of things with such convincing fidelity and
so called "truth".
In a way, I am trying to find a "personal truth" by working
with and exploiting this lie. By creating certain moods and
feelings via the camera and the subject I hope to reflect something
of myself.
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