Flat Mates

These are a series of photographs which were created as a reflection on individualism and the nature of the group that my three flat mates and I were, who were living together in student halls of residence at the time. The photographs are taken using a compact digital camera. This was to create continuity with the domestic situation.

The ‘world of nature’ and its relationship to formed culture in this series of images is engaged with as something activated by the subjects/creators of the images and by chance. By the action of taking the photograph being made less predictable with each person taking the photograph themselves, using the camera at arms length, and with their eyes closed, it involves a quality of accident in the composition. Involving this lack of design as inherent in how the photograph is made, not only emphasises that this is to some degree always a part of manifesting ideas*, but actively enjoys it.

*Even in writing the associations attached to language cannot be restrictedly defined by the author. This is famously argued by Roland Barthes in his essay The Death of the Author