Media Release
October 31 2007
Adelaide plain on show in Spain
It
takes a second glance to realise that the striking urban scenes captured
in
Mark Kimber’s Sun Pictures are merely generic buildings
around metropolitan Adelaide – such as IKEA or the KFC store on Henley
Beach Road. But Kimber's ability to find beauty in not-so-obvious
subjects that earned him a place in one of the world’s biggest
photography festivals.
Sun Pictures, a series of photographs of ordinary urban Adelaide landscapes at twilight, will be on show at Fotonoviembre 2007, the biennial International Photography Festival in Tenerife, Spain.
The Studio Head of Photography and New Media at the South Australian School of Art, Mark Kimber hopes that the series will spark international interest in Australian photography and urban Adelaide as a photogenic landscape.
“Hopefully the exhibition will get international photographers and audiences interested in Australian artists, landscapes and what is happening in Australian art and photography,” Kimber said.
Sun Pictures is one of only 80 photographic series selected from more than 1500 applicants for the festival, which recognises outstanding technique and images in modern photography.
“The judging committee is very particular to select photographs with unique content. They also try to display the different ways that you can work in photography and the different techniques that you can use to capture images,” Kimber said.
“In my collection I wanted to combine the old world of photography and the new world of photography. To do so, I captured the photographs using an old plastic camera from the 1950s; however I printed the photographs using digital techniques.”
“I used this technique to capture twilight moments in urban Australian landscapes. In particular landscapes where there is a significant gap between ‘lived-in’ space and the ‘unlived’, so the combination of light and space makes it look like an ephemeral bit of theatre.
“I would like people who view my work at Fotonoviembre 2007 to find it compelling, different and will show them that ordinary places can, for a few brief moments, be quite spectacular,” Kimber said.
Sun Pictures will be on show at Fotonoviembre 2007 in Tenerife, Spain from November 8 to December 10.
To view some of the photographs in Kimber’s Sun Pictures click here.
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