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Tuesday,
27th May, 2003
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| Adrian
Pinckard - Photography |
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The
places I photograph in are almost always local to me and I go
back to these sites again and again with an almost ritualistic
regularity, building up a level ! of familiarity with them so
that after some time, they become part of me and I them.
Insignificant
One such place, about five minutes drive from where I live,
is a seemingly insignificant piece of land on the edge of a
village, in between some fields and a railway line, through
which runs a small stream.
I
have made many photographs in and around this area, and have
a long standing fascination with the reflective and ephemeral
nature of the stream's surface, making pictures of it time and
time again, sometimes wading out into it, with my camera only
an inch or two from the surface.
On some visits, the stream is a mere trickle, but after a heavy
fall of rain it will burst back into life again, deep and powerful.
Visitors
Sometimes
there is evidence of other visitors. Children will often play
at trying to dam it up or divert it or will throw branches,
rocks or other objects into it in some kind of playful ritual,
just as I remember doing in similar places at that age. However
the stream survives. Strangely, I never see any of these other
people, just the results of their activities...
Many
of my pictures deal indirectly with certain recurring personal
themes such as childhood recollection, (or at least a personal
myth of it) memory, mystery and an attempt to find some sense
of order and purpose. Not an attempt to document any particular
place, the pictures operate within the area of personal metaphor,
allegory and suggestion.
My pictures are also a celebration of just simply and quietly
existing in a certain place and time and I sometimes think that
the pictures themselves are a kind of by product or side effect
of this simple act of just being there.
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