William Oldacre Photography

Tag: inhabitants

  • Living Organism

    Living Organism

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, orange, blue, pink, vibrant, wedge, shape
    Unnamed Twenty Eight, 2018 — Sidelong :: (click to see more)

    In considering ideas for my next project, I’ve been thinking about the city as a living organism or perhaps a living reef. The inert infrastructure is ever morphing from the efforts of us the living inhabitants – we are like the city’s life blood. We come and go, supporting, utilizing, inhabiting as we change and grow the structure of the city to meet our needs.

    The perspective of my work on the city to date has been from close proximity – illustrating this concept in detail. Perhaps it’s time to pull back and take a larger view – although I feel the problem will be time scale. My close proximity images have all been short time scale but to properly present the flow in a larger view I’ll need a longer scale – much longer.

  • The City

    The City

    Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, pink, vibrant, sine waves, waves, pattern
    Red Sine Wave Over Mauve, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more)

    I’ve been writing the foreword to a book about my three bodies of photographs about the city and last week’s post really helped to clarify what I’m about. Up to now I’ve said slightly vacuous things like I’m interested in the emotion of living in the city. Which while true isn’t specific enough.

    Looking at the city as an interaction between the inhabitants and the objects it comprises, makes much more sense. The emotional impact of that interaction – at least on a personal level, is just something that coincidentally results.

    Writing the foreword I’ve decided on an overview of my evolution – an explanation of how I arrived at photographing the city the way I do. It seems I’m always explaining myself and in a way it feels like a justification for where I’m at. I’m beginning to feel like that’s enough deep inner gazing for now. It feels like I’ve more or less figured out what I’m about – which I’ve got to say is a relief. It’s been uncomfortable always feeling like I couldn’t explain the why of what I do.

    It’s not like it’s necessary to explain the why – intuitive thinking is good and interesting, but I do tend to hop about rapidly from one thing to another and to others that kind of looks frenetic and random. It’s not random. And up until now I couldn’t really explain my decisions and actions well.

    Last week’s explanation still isn’t perfect but it feels much better.