Through the Lens : RWA Open Photography Spike Print Studio Award 2008
The first RWA Exhibition to be devoted entirely to photography. Contemporary work from invited photographers and open submission. The Spike Print Studio Award was given to Sarah Francis, for ‘Self Portrait with Legs’ which is from the ‘how I made me’ series. Below Sarah describes her work.
My personal construction has always been an integral part of my work, reconstructing, layering, pulling at each and every detail. Creating from my own memory, perception and imagination a world that laid in my subconscious mind. Rendered partly in a percentage of truth i am unable to grasp at.
The two photograph’s are taken out of a series of work focusing on the concept of us all being born with certain cultural traits, whether we like it or not. Examining how we as people escape or embrace these set in stone structures. Looking at my personal construction ‘how i made me’ is a personal journey set in the inner life of my own reality.
Each picture is linked with a piece of more thought provoking text drawing a darker context between the light humoured images making the viewer consider and work for the answer’s to the images that sit subtle between the lines.
Self portrait with legs… “…something told me to move, so i did, the bin didn’t and now had a hole spilling out its insides onto the floor…”
self portrait with pets “…they told me animals don’t have soul so burying all six of there lifeless bodies i wondered how i could even help them now…”
