Artists Statement

DARK ROOM

Dark Room is a series of photographic images that records a Father’s children and the world in which they live. Using a Camera Obscura technique the room becomes dark and the outside world emerges within the space. The work explores a Father’s fears for his own children and his own perceived vulnerability of youth.

Pressures of social media, youth culture and parental/social expectation place the child within an un-real landscape. Visually inspired by the work of Marja Pirilä’s INTERIOR/EXTERIOR and her use of a camera obscura technique, the Dark Room here is set between the physical and the psychological as the inverted landscape is both familiar and disconnected.

Confronted by the disconnected landscape within which his child is posed, the photographer has been forced to question the disconnect between his own anxieties and reality.