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Terrence Donovan – Thermodynamic, Man About Town (1961)



Whilst this Image comes from rebound fashion photographer, Terrence Donovan, a practice very far removed from my own. This image in particular showcasing a fashionable Jaeger suit of the time, the backdrop of air ducts, pipes, ladders and more ‘exposed guts’ of the building behind suit my thematic influence of Liminal Infrastructure very well and work to create this poignant image.

Margaret Bourke-White – Fort Peck Dam (1936)



This image taken back in the 30’s and printed using the silver gelatine process, depicts a large dam under construction. The way the photographer has captured the repetitious nature of modern building and design processes is evident here, the vast concrete forms that will make up the ribs of the dam once finished, seem to dwarf the two figures in the foreground, further extenuating their form.

Pentti Sammallahti – ‘When Winter Reigns’ , Various works


Airisto, Finland, 1978

Few photographers work have resonated with me so quickly and so powerfully as those of Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti, whose fascination with the colder climates having grown up in the cold expanse of Finland has led him to create unbelievably stunningly bleak imagery whose powerfully isolating themes and atmospheres are enough to completely strip any sense of mundanity, ego and indeed warmth from the beholder. These works really speak to me at a personal level, my biggest drive and motivations in photography being capturing bleak and harsh environments and atmospheres. This is definitely someone who I will be returning to many times moving forward from this project and one that I will study with very keen interest.

Jim Fergusson – visual style


Being born with astigmatism in both eyes with corrective surgery leaving him with no to very limited depth perception, this is something I can relate with having been born with also with an astigmatism in both eyes and requiring double corrective surgery, luckily however my depth perception was not as impacted as Jim’s. an unexpected result of this was a very unique visual style, very flat and juxtaposing. Jim stated his intent with this style was to present things in such a way that time and place are of little consequence and don’t factor into the reading of the image. Something I have strived for in my own work in the past, to remove the usual sociological significance of certain scenes in order to present them in abstraction. I found this link between our practices furtherly interesting due to us both having the same medical condition affecting our eyesight and resulted in myself asking questions about my own eyesight and questioning if whether that desire to abstract comes from this altered perception of the world or whether it stems from another source.

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