One of my phonecam images has been selected for exhibition at the Capture show in Sydney, Australia!
As well as being displayed as the Week 7 image on Capture’s site (click on the } to switch pictures), Raspberry Reflection will be physically displayed at the blank_space gallery in Sydney and is up for the People’s Choice award along with nineteen others.
A few of us from moblogUK have been selected – Joe’s has wonderful colour, texture and an otherworldlyness to it; Beth’s is a stunning piece of nonchalant self-portraiture; but I think Rich deserves to bag the prize with his lovely shot.
[detour] Actually, it makes me think about the direction my phonecam work’s been taking over the last year: my ‘serious’ work never has people in it. Trees? Yes. Sculpture? You betcha. The sky? Yep. People? Nope.
The reason I like Rich’s Shopping Is Boring is because it’s a spontaneous random moment born from a very human sense of fun, and I think other people would react to it in the same way. My landscape stuff may be quite interesting, and it’s allowed me to concentrate on framing, exposure, etc, but it lacks any feedback from the subject – a two-way interaction, really.
Snapping people with a cameraphone – even with their knowledge and permission – comes with its own baggage. And it just doesn’t seem to be my ‘thing’: I phonecam instances of interest that either quickly occur or are suddenly noticed, and the interaction with a responsive person on the other side of the lens doesn’t enthuse me so much, really. Just a different sort of approach. [/detour]
The Capture exhibition runs from April 14th to the 24th, at the blank_space gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney. Unfortunately I can’t attend, but I’ll be watching the website for coverage and the announcement of the People’s Choice result. If you happen to be in the Australia area with some time to kill, why not check it out and let me know how it went – you could even moblog it!
