I discovered the amazingly inspirational work of Kevin Newark today, who explores the themes of "space, time, anxiety and displacement". His project consisted of him collecting numerous carrier bags from around East London and photographing them in an attempt to find "solace for the exiled soul of the plastic bag". Although his work explores how meaningless objects can become meaningful, and how there is no existence for plastic and other materials once discarded, it mainly looks into the fact that they are no longer in need for their sole purpose. His work is beautiful, bringing a breath of fresh air to the politics of consumerism and environmental damage.
I am unsure of how his images are captured, and although probably not correct, I would guess that the images had been captured using the scannography technique based on the way the images are presented and the use of shadows, would be scannography. My interest in scannography has stretched back to my GCSE studies at high school, where I became obsessed with capturing the beautiful flowers that grew in my back garden on the scanner. I feel that scannography can open up a whole new aesthetic in image making, where dark and light in more defined in the photography. I plan to begin my experimentation by emulating the ideas that Newark had, by using refuse bags from my work place as a starting point.
(Upon further research and reading into this photographic series, I discovered his images were taken in water)
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