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Untitled V, from Death in the Afternoon
Untitled V, from Death in the Afternoon
This image was taken in 2010 and is part of the project Death in the Afternoon.
The following limited edition fine art prints are available as archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper. Each print is signed, dated and includes a signed certificate of authenticity.
24.5 × 17 Inches, Edition of 20: £300
This image was taken in 2010 and is part of the project Death in the Afternoon.
The following limited edition fine art prints are available as archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper. Each print is signed, dated and includes a signed certificate of authenticity.
24.5 × 17 Inches, Edition of 20: £300
Death in the Afternoon
Whilst taking portraits of people during a pheasant-shoot, I took multiple frames in order to capture the subjects with their eyes closed. Portrayed in this way the subjects appear withdrawn into a state of numb, private reflection. Where we might ordinarily seek connection through a subject’s gaze, here we are denied it, left instead to contemplate the stillness of their expressions.
The whiteness of the snow-covered fields, typically associated with purity or quiet beauty, here feels more like an erasure, a muffling of the surrounding world. Together, these elements seem to resonate with the small moments of death occurring throughout the day. The shoot proceeds with a certain rhythm; birds flushed, shots fired, birds falling, and the photographs exist outside of this, a momentary hiatus- with the silence of a ceasefire.
“As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It’s a trace”. Henri Cartier-Bresson
This project was a selected winner in the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Exchange in 2011.