A Closed Field of Forces?
Today I had the pleasure of attending a guest lecture by Sam Holden.
As well as talking about his commercial endeavours, he discussed how, in the pieces shown below, he dedicated a large amount of his personal practice to dissecting the famous Barthes quote:
“The portrait-photograph is a closed field of forces. Four image-repertoires intersect here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art.”
- Camera Lucida
“70 Still Frames and 5 Minutes 50 Seconds of Video”
“Focus (No. 2)”
For more of Sam’s work, check out his Vimeo page.
I really do struggle with anything involving video,.. I need to be more open minded I think. I think I would be more interesting having heard the work talked about. Was he an interesting speaker?
Yeah he was – which is quite handy as he’s going to be my new tutor… only found out today.
He still seems fairly young though, so should be interesting and exciting to absorb something form someone currently active and in a slightly different field.