Media Release
October 31 2007
Urban Adelaide after dark
When we think of photogenic locations, the last thing that comes to
mind is the local car wash. Yet it is such ordinary buildings of
metropolitan Adelaide that has captured the attention of an
international photographer.
Exploring the urban Adelaide landscape by moonlight in a new series entitled Moonrise is the latest concept that the South Australian School of Art’s Studio Head of Photography and New Media, Mark Kimber, has applied to his photographs.
“The care time stretches beyond the moment-by-moment time in which we see,” Kimber said.
“Revealing a world impossible to know through our own consciousness, an unseen world of compressed time and unworldly colour glowing with a alight only photography can see.”
Following his series Sun Pictures, which looked at urban Adelaide landscapes during twilight, Moonrise captures the urban landscapes of metropolitan Adelaide in total night.
“I am fascinated by the urban landscape after dark and the way in which the ‘theatre’ of night transforms everyday spaces into something a little disturbing and perhaps uneasy,” Kimber said.
“These are images that hum with a sense of mystery and promise while picturing a world from a parallel dimension – one that exists along side our own and is always present – but imperceptible to our vision.”
Kimber’s Moonrise will be exhibited at Greenaway Art Gallery, 39 Rundle Road, Kent Town from November 2 to 25.
Contact for interview
- Mark Kimber office 08 8302 9277 email mark.kimber@unisa.edu.au
Media contact
- Vincent Ciccarello office 08 8302 0578 mobile 0434 603 457 email vincent.ciccarello@unisa.edu.au