Nigel Tomm

I was blown away by these stunning, unique and inspiring images. The way that Tomm has found a way to capture and present his subject is abstract yet he still manages to maintain the element of beauty, this is distorted but again this distortion provides a more truthful image. One which makes the audience take something very different away.

Gabriel Orozco

Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco blurs the boundaries between video, drawing, installations, sculpture and photography allowing the audience's imagination to run wild. He gives value to objects which have no status, discarded and undervalued, not desired or part of the big idea of globalised culture. Globalisation is at the center and structure of his work making comment upon the 'fissures and anomalies' capitalism and 'integrated' culture has created. This interaction between audience and artwork is why Orozco is so critically acclaimed, because he managed to communicate effectively through such sometimes bizarre and abstract forms.

Orozco focuses on spatial production, he gives us something to make us feel at time unease with, challenging a normal perspective of a landscape like above. The phenomenological aspects of his work are what fascinate me.  Orozco selects places, objects, landscapes which are recognizable (in globalised culture we recognize them as repetitions and replications but accept them as the 'stadium') but then adds another element, creating a juxtaposition which means we are met with a globalised (naturalized) space alongside something that throws off our natural agreement. If we consider this to be the 'punctum' of the image. This smaller creation, sculpture I feel makes a comment and pierces the viewer that everywhere now seems to made in the image of something else, and most importantly cannot exist without it. Can we have an original experience of anywhere at any one time, or is there somewhere else and someone else experiencing the exact same flaneur.

Repetitions

                        Carrie

This image offers a two sided portrait, I wanted to take two parts of the image and treat them separately, repetitions and reflections are my photographic 'obsession'. I love how they bounce of each other and make each one stranger and more visually interesting. I want people to consider how these two identities coincide with one another, and question which sides of themselves would they chose to show? This is reflected through the black and white style of the image and the editing process where I pushed the boundaries of shadow and highlight detail.