Untitled, 2018 - 11 x 14 prints and 5 x 7 handmade booklets, Fiber Base Matte Paper.
untitled
From a detached approach, the images presented in this photographic corpus engage with the medium of photography and its history. The subtle aesthetics of conceptual art hidden behind the commonly known genre of topography and typology assume the very inherent visual qualities of the medium itself. This is an in-depth study of what becomes the medium of photography when faced with so many technical possibilities within the quest of objectivity. Depicting man-altered landscapes with a precise and methodical way of capturing a collection of architectural fragments of materiality from urban and suburban realities, this corpus is an attempt to resolve the ‘New Topographics, 1975*’ discourse. With the common determinator of a stylistic anonymity there is a challenge to convey substantial amounts of visual information without any degree of beauty, emotion and/or judgement. The importance is undoubtedly reflected in the process of creating a catalog of inherent visual qualities of the medium of photography through the landscape theory. * Adams, Robert, Lewis Baltz, Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John F. Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel. New Topographics. Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2010.