“Is this really a utopia, or just another nightmare?” –
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| Photo: © Francesca Solloway 2013 |
Hello everyone! Today we have some more excellent student
work for you. Francesca Solloway is a second year Photography student at
Southampton Solent University, and is currently working on a landscape-based
project, centred on the conflict between seduction and repulsion, utopia and nightmare.
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Her images offer new perspectives on sceneries which we may pass every day. By photographing them at the “hour of twilight… the blue hour”, Francesca transforms these sites into stages for eerie and uncanny experiences and her work simultaneously challenges and emphasises the notions of beauty associated with nature. This is achieved by fusing the rich, almost luxurious blue light produced at this time of day, with the dark, slightly blurred, claw-like tree trunks and branches, which pierce the serenity of each image. This conflict questions our relationship to nature, as our own fears and desires are played out projected onto the landscape that surrounds us.
And finally, be sure to send us your own work. We want to
feature as much of it as possible on the blog!
Joe Rose
Co-Editor
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