I found after looking at all of Thomas Struth's work, that for everyone of his photographs, and throughout his entire body of work, he photographed a relationship. A connection, between two things, whether it was between two people, people and art, architecture and its surroundings... I wanted to photograph a relationship that isn't so obvious to us as say another friend, rather to something we forget we have a connection to. The relationship I am suggesting is between us and our mechanical counter parts -Machines that we use on a day to day basis. - And to photograph not the purpose of the connection, but the evidence of one.
I love your approach of looking into his work with the psychological aspect instead of just the visual aspects. The image with the description is strong, but I think if you pursued this as a series it could become very powerful. The idea of "traces of a connection" is really well executed and it would be interesting to see more professions/hobbies or whatever done this way (not even mechanical - a baker with flour on his apron or cheek?).
ReplyDelete-Erin Whittier
Emily Pleasance:
ReplyDeleteHey thanks so much! I was thinking of doing a series actually after this :) I fell in love with the idea, now I just have to find time to actually take photos for me instead of for Robyn :P