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artist statement for critique 20 aug 24.pages

The surprises of wandering Kayla Linda Kasarherou Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours - Photo Media My work explores my wandering in Auckland City and its suburbs. I was trying to find tranquility and busyness in my wandering. Going to different places without knowing where I am going led me to a place of being lost but at the same time being happy to get lost as it made me feel more present. I felt quite uncertain when moving around the new places I find myself in and there is always some surprises, that results in great photographs. These photographs ended up expressing my idea of peace, of calmness, but also of busyness. I wanted to show the busyness and the complexity that can be found within a city. In addition, I was interested to photograph the forms and objects that arise from everyday lives. I was also interested in the natural environment and the world around me. As my yearning to find peace within myself and in the world has always been here, it was important for me to mak...

Morganna Magee

- https://www.morgannamagee.com/about = Her practice explores human relations to the more-than-human world using traditional photographic practices in non-traditional ways. ETHICAL STATEMENT I acknowledge my position as a settler on stolen Bunurong land in my daily life and art practice. This land has been a place of art making, ceremony, learning, design, politics, wisdom and care for 85,000 years before my existence and will continue to be long after I am gone. I believe I have a duty to show love and care to the country on which I am situated and use my position as a photographer to pay it reverence. The process I use to make photos is slow and deliberate. All images made of the more than human world are done with respect and care. I do not trod on areas where no paths have been made and all animals are free to come and go willingly from the frame of my camera. I never photograph with a long lens, the animals in the photos I make have chosen to allow me to be close and I end...