City Centre Ruins – 2018

2018… (A cynical person’s view of the aftermath of 2017)

My entry to the Ferens Open Exhibition 2015. The title of the image is 2018, i.e. year after the city of culture. This photo reflects the views of the cynics and the haters. Hull as a post apocliptic waste land after all the glitz, glamour and money has gone…. Not that I think this will be the case at all.

The image is created with own images and 4 copy right free source images. By creating the landscape with real everyday images I think it creates a certain believable realise that drawings and paintings might not have.

Taking around 30 hours the images where placed and manpulated using photoshop and a LOT of groups and layers.

A2 Print

Within my photography I like to create surreal, odd, magical scenes with locations that people still recognise. My main drive for doing this comes from often I hearing that Hull is boring or uninspiring and dull and I guess within my work I’d like to prove the bored, uninspired haters wrong.

(And also I absolutely love creating my own manipulated realties).

 

 I think the themes of this work could both fit in with the everyday and also gothic.

Everyday = Using everyday images to create a work.

Gothic = Decay, dread, ruins melodrama & mistrust.