Worlds edge

A series of photographs made using a digital camera with a pin hole lens. The images were inspired by films that contain reference to the future especially, 2001: A space odyssey (1968). Logans run (1976). Alien (1979). and Koyanisqatsi (1982). The physical environments in these films always appear complicated and a touch baffling, and there is an ever present detachment from the natural. Things can and do get out of hand, danger is not far away, and life is watched over by detached machines. I'd had a heap of old electronic stuff lying around for ages with the intention of making photographic sets from their components alluding to the future in a way similar to the cinema films. The horses and humans give scale, and suggest a sense of entrapment and loss of freedom in places where invisible processes are being conducted by machines that merge with a more organic world. A pin hole lens seemed appropriate for this project as it is a device from a very distant past, and possibly the most primitive lens, yet by design capable of infinite depth of focus and space that is not possible with conventional lenses. A pin hole also has a dreamy softness and central emphasis that I felt added a certain oddness, enhancing a sense of another world. Essentially though, I made this set of images for fun, and perhaps to push the boundaries a little in what is possible using a pin hole. This series is also the first in a set of pinhole produced images that I am keen to make. Photographed during 2016.