Interzone

In the moment just before the sun disappears beyond a horizon line, some people recall witnessing a mystical flash of light. Photographer Chris Mann refers to the visual territory filling the void of such phenomena as the 'Interzone'. It exists on the cusp of abstraction, the subjective space between reality and imagination, and the oscillations between universal dichotomies. 'Interzone' depicts Mann's ongoing body of work and approach to photography; visually distilling the natural and man-made world from the confines of objective time and place, and traversing the viewers imagination toward a universal genius loci, or spirit of place. - Artist Statement: For me photography is all about imagination, I want to use the medium to continually challenge my interpretation of the world around me. I shoot mostly when travelling, gravitating towards singular images and seeking to visually distill a sense of place. Working with film and the darkroom is crucial to my creative process. It's where I really join the dots in my work; exploring and finding relationships between the images I make and continually uncovering the coalescent threads that bind them together.