Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill is a British photographer born in Bristol 1971. This is a piece of work from Gill's Buried project. The photos in this project were taken in Hackney Wick and also buried there. The amount of time the images were buried was varied dependent on the amount of rain. Gill says that not knowing what the images would look like once dug up again gave the project an element of surprise.
The image itself is of a plant that has bright, vibrant flowers attached. Which is then covered in dirt giving it a slightly decayed look to it. Having this decayed look to the image adds texture which gives it a rawer feeling. The composition of the image is mainly based around the plant, which takes up nearly the whole frame, leaving little room for any background.
This image could represent the land trying to destroy man-made objects. The images are buried and slowly being destroyed and taken over by the land. Gill could be trying to show that we shouldn’t be destroying anymore of the land but we should be giving nature the land back. The image has a cluttered feel to it because of everything that is going on. There isn’t much space within the actual image and by adding this decay onto it makes it feel more cluttered.
Judging by the age of the photographer and the quality of the image think that its most likely the photo was taken on a coloured film camera. Gill would have taken the images and found a location to bury them in. He would of kept track of the weather and how long the images had been buried for. He used a varied depth of where the images where buried to see if he got different outcomes.
I really like Gill's Buried project because of the way he does things in a different way. Rather than knowing exactly how the outcome will look, he takes a risk and does something that takes a while with no guaranteed good outcome. Burying the images, I feel gives them more character than just digitally editing the images.
The image itself is of a plant that has bright, vibrant flowers attached. Which is then covered in dirt giving it a slightly decayed look to it. Having this decayed look to the image adds texture which gives it a rawer feeling. The composition of the image is mainly based around the plant, which takes up nearly the whole frame, leaving little room for any background.
This image could represent the land trying to destroy man-made objects. The images are buried and slowly being destroyed and taken over by the land. Gill could be trying to show that we shouldn’t be destroying anymore of the land but we should be giving nature the land back. The image has a cluttered feel to it because of everything that is going on. There isn’t much space within the actual image and by adding this decay onto it makes it feel more cluttered.
Judging by the age of the photographer and the quality of the image think that its most likely the photo was taken on a coloured film camera. Gill would have taken the images and found a location to bury them in. He would of kept track of the weather and how long the images had been buried for. He used a varied depth of where the images where buried to see if he got different outcomes.
I really like Gill's Buried project because of the way he does things in a different way. Rather than knowing exactly how the outcome will look, he takes a risk and does something that takes a while with no guaranteed good outcome. Burying the images, I feel gives them more character than just digitally editing the images.