Contemplation
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Title | Contemplation | ||
| Medium | Pinhole photography | ||||||||
| Silver gelatin prints | |||||||||
| Dimension | 5 x 7 inches each | ||||||||
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Exhibition view | click here | ||
| Date | 2001 | ||||||||
| Venue | VCA Gallery | ||||||||
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Statement | Contemplation contains a series of images of places and | ||
| people that I photographed before leaving Australia. | |||||||||
| Particular locations and people were chosen due to the | |||||||||
| relationship that I built up with them in the past years. | |||||||||
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I used a pinhole camera to make these images because | |||
| I wanted to lengthen the time, so that I could bring more | |||||||||
| "moments" back home with me as visual memories. | |||||||||
| Through the long exposures (from 3 - 15 min), the people | |||||||||
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were driven into a contemplation mode simultaneously. | |||
| Likewise, when the subject became a location, I was | |||||||||
| contemplating during the exposures (from 5 - 45 min). | |||||||||
| I consider it was an natural act to contemplate in front of a | |||||||||
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pinhole camera, because one could do no more than stay | |||||
| calm. Unlike general photography's hunting process, this | |||||||||
| passive and meditative method allowed me to collect more | |||||||||
| of the subjects' emotions. |