Richard Ansett
Großbritannien
http://www.richardansett.com
Kunstart: Fotografie
Technik: Edeldruckverfahren
Stil: Moderne
Vita / Lebenslauf:
\'JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER\' - A PERSONAL STATEMENT
We are a product of our environment, in our dress, behaviour, and body language, in fact all aspects of our personality are shaped by the social and political landscape we live in.
I am most interested in exploring the relationships we have to our complex environments. A sucessful portrait is not a democratic process, it is the exploration of the subject within a fixed and delibrate composition.
My most rewarding portraits are taken when the subject is unsure of their relationship to the camera and has not yet become complicit in the photographic process.
As with life, people\'s view of themselves is not always that close to the reality of how others perceive them.
The myth of the documentary tradition is that it is truthful, the deliberate sense of lighting and space and the placing of objects are an attempt to acknowledge my presence as the photographer with the image.
This is not strictly a true representation of life but my interpretation of it.
In my attempts to place others into their environments i acknowledge my failure to succeed myself. Regardless of the tragedy in other poeples lives i always celebrate their ability to belong.
Major influences: Otto Dix, The Arnolfini Portrait, Yan Van Eyke,Boris Mikhailov, social realism.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Tenderpixel Gallery 25th September - 14th October 2008
10/10/10
Tenderpixel Gallery
10 Cecil Court
London
WC2N 4HE
020 7379 9464
Creative Reveiw \'Best of the best\' - October 2008
Theprintspace
74 Kingsland Road
London E2 8DL
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
National Portrait Gallery
London
6th November 2008 - 03/09
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