Rob™
I’m a photographic artist living in the rural North-West of England.
My aim is to record the journey, the road trip, getting from A to B geographically, temporally or metaphorically, and the things I see there, using whichever style of image-making that provides sense to that journey. Another recurring subject is what has been termed the “mundane” or “neutral”; those everyday things we fail to notice until they’re recorded photographically, which makes us stop and reflect.
Occasionally I’ll even try different things.
“Catch”, shown here, falls into this category of “different things”. My experience of Oxford during that weekend in September has been mediated through the use of Pokemon Go. The “augmented reality” phone app changes the way we look at our environment. It’s not about the rich history of the city, its about the here and now; the zeitgeist of this age of technology, an ersatz of true reality.
My aim is to record the journey, the road trip, getting from A to B geographically, temporally or metaphorically, and the things I see there, using whichever style of image-making that provides sense to that journey. Another recurring subject is what has been termed the “mundane” or “neutral”; those everyday things we fail to notice until they’re recorded photographically, which makes us stop and reflect.
Occasionally I’ll even try different things.
“Catch”, shown here, falls into this category of “different things”. My experience of Oxford during that weekend in September has been mediated through the use of Pokemon Go. The “augmented reality” phone app changes the way we look at our environment. It’s not about the rich history of the city, its about the here and now; the zeitgeist of this age of technology, an ersatz of true reality.