WHO SAID PORTRAITS HAD TO BE STILL?

February 21st 2012

My most recent work has been rewarded by kind words from my tutors, and others I have showed it to and I am glad. 

During last autumn Patrick Ytting (composer, pianist) and I started collaborating on the idea of being in a different state of mind. As everyone know this happens when we are asleep, or on drugs etc, but we wanted to experiment with music to see how someone would react carefully listening to music, concentrating on it, in an ideal space. We choose to do this in a church and the results were just what I was hoping they would be.

When being photographed we put on a mask, and I think we do so to protect us. Perhaps we do not want to be confronted by ourselves, or just make sure that we are immortalized as pretty human beings. But who said that a portraited of someone had to be a still image? When filming these four musicians/music students they seem to forget about the camera filming them, eventually. Because of constant changing technology moving image is now more relevant than ever and some predicts it will completely kill the still image. I don't think so, but definetly wish to experiment with new ways to push boundaries of photography.

I guess posting a vimeo-video will never justify how it looked on a gallery wall, but it's the best I can do for now. On a gallery wall they were exhibited next to eachother, looped.

 

Here's the work

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