Gareth Harrison

I use photography for unpacking experiences. I’ve learned to look at a photo and consider its role from a place beyond a technical capturing of a moment in time. The camera has a power to shape the images it captures. It also has a power to make us look at what we are capturing in a specific way. Whether it be our own projection of mood and emotion onto a subject, or the subject looking back and reacting to the cameras presence. The camera has a power to move subjects beyond human perception. Abstraction and tricks of light can distort and enhance, moving the subject to a place beyond what is perceivable by the human eye. Creating discourse simply through stasis, or the consideration the of tangential. For me it is this relationship with the camera that keeps it in my hand. Not because I consider these things every time I activate the shutter, but because every now and then I get a surprise. I get an insight into the way I peer through the lens, and why I do. From city abstractions, to travel photos, to commercial work, the camera shows me who I am as much as it shows me what I’ve done or where I’ve been, and I think that is a pretty great trick.

Uses of Photography Studio

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