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April 21, 2011
Mark Kimber's exhibition at Greenway Gallery in Adelaide were taken with a plastic pinhole camera. This is tiny hole in a piece of metal that projects an image onto film, a camera obscura.
Kimber says that he has:
found it quite mesmerizing the way a small hole in the wall could create an image of the outside world, stripped of its finer details, and reduced to its elemental form and that has stayed with me. I am not interested in the pixel perfect replication of “reality” that is possible with CGI photography rather my enthralment lies in the theatrical abstraction that comes about when photography’s protean talents enchantingly distorts it.
The cut out clouds in a theatre set don’t say this is exactly what a cloud looks like, it suggests that this is a representation of a cloud, - how we might remember clouds to be, or even how clouds “feel”.
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