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Pony Express invited me to document their experimental art performance, “Epoch Wars“, as part of New Annual Festival.
These simple, elegant headshots of Jess were taken using natural light and shot on location in the Newcastle CBD.
Helping my models feel comfortable is really important to me, and always produces great shots with authentic smiles.
‘Some of my memories are sharp and clear, with rich details that I can synthesize and keep alive. Others have shadows, blurred edges, and bits burned away.
This body of work is about the edges of my memory; the parts that have been ignored, misplaced, damaged, or are of such importance that I must never forget them’.
This project is being developed on the traditional lands and waters of the Awabakal and Worimi people. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.
Overall Concept Statement
‘Intertidal’ is an inter-disciplinary collaborative Art project which aims to explore the rapidly evolving physical, social, personal, and political environments of Newcastle.
The project pivots on the central theme of ‘Intertidal zones’ – The areas between high and low tide marks. Organisms which live in these zones must deal with dynamic environmental conditions and are in a constant state of flux; submerged in water and exposed to air, physical impact of waves, desiccation, sun exposure, flood and storm surges. They must be resilient in order to survive the ever increasing effects of human intervention and climate change.
Using this metaphor, ‘intertidal’ looks to explore subjects which are positioned at or between extremes, exist in a state of constant flux and are thriving in harsh environments.
The project celebrates the inherent queerness, determinism and magic of nature, and explores ideas of identity, gender, community, resilience and transience.
The project output will be a collaborative body of work consisting of photographs, video, sculpture and installation.
What is Intertidal?
Project Status:
Under Development
Current Phase:
More info, see Instagram @its.chrisbrown
This series was created back while I was at Uni. I was experimenting heavily with film based photography and double exposures. Double exposures presented me with an opportunity to explore immersive, uninterrupted visual planes to create works that felt surreal and vulnerable.
See What Happens was developed during a period of grief and loss. At first glance, they feel weightless and light, as if I am free falling through space. In reality, the poses were actually very painful and injurious – a direct physical articulation of what i was enduring emotionally.
These works were exhibited at the pop up project “NANA Gallery” , Hunter St Newcastle, June 2015
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