Jeremy Kidd.

For the last several years Jeremy has been utilising his background as a sculptor and painter to push the photographic realm and explore the modern environment. His goal is to engage the viewer and convey an animated experience of the dynamic urban infrastructure.

The pieces are as much about what traditional photography is not as they are about what it can be made to do, exploring movement, time, multiple viewpoints and the subjectivity of experienced. During the re-assemblage into coherent panoramic vistas, the scenes are altered and evolve away from the original source to become a metaphor for memory. As do our experiences as they depart overtime from the observed source.

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It seems unrealistic to expect a single photographic shot, a single moment in time, to convey the human experience of seeing. We visually explore our environment in the third and fourth dimensions as we build our personal visual journey. Compositing up to 100 long exposures into a single piece, is a more cohesive way of expressing the filmic. It allows me to explore movement and condensed time and lends itself to my concerns with exemplifying the transcendental and the essence of place, in the urban/landscape.Though I am not directly referencing (Hudson River School Painters) I draw parallels with the artist’s methods and have in mind the often-transcendental qualities that are encountered in their landscapes. However I aim to extol something of this spirit within the urban context. An “urbanized Idealism”. I aim to present a condensed vision of multiple photographs as a metaphor for repeated perceptual glances. And engage the viewer by conveying an animated experience of the dynamic urban infrastructure.