Vézelay Seen from the South
Photograph - 56 x 84cm
Scapeland XVIII
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
Landscape with Background Noise
Photograph - 56 x 84cm
Scapeland XVII
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
In Alvor
Photograph - 36 x 54cm
Like Columns of Tiny Ants XX
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
Sudek’s Trees IV
Photograph - 36 x 54cm
Like Columns of Tiny Ants XXX
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
I work with the materials in my local environment.
My photographic works and occasional site-specific installations are mainly concerned with how to engage with the natural and cultural landscape of rural Norfolk at a time when landscape imagery is widely held in low critical esteem.
In my current work on the region’s woodlands and wetlands, I use paired images to make wide landscape-format pieces where the pairing is not always immediately obvious. These constructed photographs present neither what the human eye sees nor what the camera can record at any given instant.
I like Jean-François Lyotard’s use of the term dépaysement (‘estrangement’) to characterize the otherness that he saw as ‘a precondition for landscape’.
Steve's Website: www.steve-baker.com