Urban Australia on view in Spain
by Nicole Mikajewski
Studio
Head of Photography and New Media at UniSA’s South Australian School
of Art, Mark Kimber hopes his Sun Pictures will spark international
interest in Australian photography and Australia as a photogenic
landscape.
Kimber’s series of photographs of ordinary urban landscapes at twilight will be on show at Fotonoviembre 2007, the biennial International Photography Festival in Tenerife, Spain later this year.
"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 was one of only 80 photographic series selected from more than 1500 applicants for this special festival, which recognises outstanding technique and images in modern photography.
"The judging committee is very particular in selecting 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, adding that Sun Pictures is a marriage of old and new technologies.
"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," he said.
"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, fora few brief moments, bequite spectacular."