Holiday Park from Everything is Real #mirrors #reflectingonphotography #nonspace #illusion #phototheory #truthclaim https://www.instagram.com/p/Crp2zwJstuo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Scale alludes photographic representation once again. From the other side of the valley the ridge seemed to tower above us, but as we approached this vast mass of rock, it seemed to collapse down, step by step, until it resembled a scale model of itself. It lost all of its ability to intimidate us. Sometimes it seems space itself is some form of optical #illusion https://www.instagram.com/p/CVIAlYaMz5R/?utm_medium=tumblr
Natural glitch #83 #spectrality #ambiguity #illusion #glitchphotography #vhs #noise #apophenia #water #surface #random #duck https://www.instagram.com/p/CKukDzCnevl/?igshid=1hfntbigjxrl5
Natural glitch #42 #spectrality #ambiguity #illusion #glitchphotography #abstraction #light #mediated #reflection https://www.instagram.com/p/CKpR50AHOnx/?igshid=uhgpo1l5w420
Pub (2020) from Everything is Real series #spectrality #illusion #architecturephotography #rorschachtest #reflections #photographytheory #pareidolia #icanseefaces #urbanexploration #spectersofcovid #abandonedplaces #hauntology https://www.instagram.com/p/CJlyE52nFQb/?igshid=s3xbdpna6p24
Newbuild (2020) from Everything is Real series #spectrality #illusion #architecturephotography #rorschachtest #reflections #photographytheory #pareidolia #icanseefaces #urbanexploration #nightmare #nonplace #dreamcities #identikit #buildings #view #leedsart https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1CEiCnLnz/?igshid=1w22kj9j862at
We burnt the ground into the sky......... Sometimes an #illusion tells a truth we dare not look at directly #nightmare #pareidolia #pollution #darkness #anthropocene https://www.instagram.com/p/CHmxyxtH066/?igshid=muola531drkw
Me in the Broken Mirror, Self Landscapes: Reflections on Photography. Shattering Roland Barthes “transparent envelope” since 2013. #deconstruction #materialism #photographytheory #rolandbarthes #spectrality #reflections #cameralucida #selfportraits #illusion #mirrormirror https://www.instagram.com/p/CGeeXk5HOx1/?igshid=mfb058zaoaor
Sky Bridge from Everything is Real (2020). Another trippy photo #illusion courtesy of #universityofleeds great #campus #architecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXUSUdHAa6/?igshid=1qvw6gaku1hub
@universityofleeds welcomes you to campus with open arms! Campus from Everything is Real series (2020) #universityofleeds #brutalistarchitecture #illusionphotography #pareidolia #reflections #photographytheory #truthclaim #illusion #symmetry #rorschach test #giantrobot #dreamarchitecture #unrealspaces #leeds https://www.instagram.com/p/CFNh_-Inc-Y/?igshid=1cu9tuqgp50p2
INDOOR LANDSCAPE from Still Life Shot Flat #minimalist #lockdownphotography #abstraction #illusion #quarantinelife #indoorlandscape #boredom #sunset #bedroomwall #pareidolia #prisonerscinema https://www.instagram.com/p/CExJArbneMk/?igshid=1w6b2plbc6l50
Nuclear Bunker from Everything is Real series #illusion #photographytheory #truthclaim #mirror #unrealspaces #urbanexploration #rafbempton #ruins https://www.instagram.com/p/CEenqwWHqc5/?igshid=pmcl9z95dje0
Hotel (2020) from Everything is Real series #illusion #imaginarycities #photographytheory #truthclaim #mirror #unrealspaces #dreamarchitecture #urbanphotography #brighton https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcaT2lHLti/?igshid=11ewu4t0sx14s
New Build (2020) from Everything is Real series by Michael C Coldwell #lockdown #postphotography project, revisiting old work. Digital smoke and #mirrors deliver strange new views of the banal #urbanlandscape. Photography is an #illusion. #pareidolia #photographytheory #refections #digitalart #posttopographics https://www.instagram.com/p/CEPzjlDHAvX/?igshid=a3p0myncu13y
Empty Building from Everything is Real. From my previous contribution to herri journal: Everything is Real presents a series of #architectural #Rorschach tests inspired by the artist’s three year old daughter Zoë, who defiantly proclaims “everything is real!” whenever her fantasies are challenged. Despite alluding to something more fantastical – spaceships, monsters, objects from another world – everything about these photographs is actually real. The trace of a real place is preserved entirely intact in each image, the only creative intervention being the placement of a #mirror – another technology we routinely rely on to tell us the #truth. The viewer is tricked by reflective #symmetry into seeing something which is not present, a #psychological phenomenon known as #pareidolia – the same #illusion relied on in Rorschach tests. Does what we see in these meaningless forms have something to tell us about ourselves? All photographs have this latent ability, here rendered obvious through the simplest of manipulations. In this series the artist revisits his own urban #landscape #photography, trying to see it afresh as if through the eyes of a child. “Reality” is a trick of #perception and there are other ways of seeing it that we have forgotten. Photography should be about seeing through another set of eyes, perceiving banal and everyday things and spaces in new ways. As a manifesto this challenges the objectivity and authoritative “truth claim” of photography, something which has been shown as both false and politically problematic by key theorists such as John Tagg. At a time when reality itself seems to be bending out of recognition, it might be comforting to consider that how we look at things, has a profound ability to alter what we see – but equally, we might be troubled by how little we can trust the image as #evidence. https://herri.org.za/3/michael-c-coldwell https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6p4GTHoi6/?igshid=n9b77mrmnsim
Suburbia from Everything is Real by Michael C Coldwell. From my previous contribution to herri journal: Everything is Real presents a series of #architectural #Rorschach tests inspired by the artist’s three year old daughter Zoë, who defiantly proclaims “everything is real!” whenever her fantasies are challenged. Despite alluding to something more fantastical – spaceships, monsters, objects from another world – everything about these photographs is actually real. The trace of a real place is preserved entirely intact in each image, the only creative intervention being the placement of a #mirror – another technology we routinely rely on to tell us the #truth. The viewer is tricked by reflective #symmetry into seeing something which is not present, a #psychological phenomenon known as #pareidolia – the same #illusion relied on in Rorschach tests. Does what we see in these meaningless forms have something to tell us about ourselves? All photographs have this latent ability, here rendered obvious through the simplest of manipulations. In this series the artist revisits his own urban #landscape #photography, trying to see it afresh as if through the eyes of a child. “Reality” is a trick of #perception and there are other ways of seeing it that we have forgotten. Photography should be about seeing through another set of eyes, perceiving banal and everyday things and spaces in new ways. As a manifesto this challenges the objectivity and authoritative “truth claim” of photography, something which has been shown as both false and politically problematic by key theorists such as John Tagg. At a time when reality itself seems to be bending out of recognition, it might be comforting to consider that how we look at things, has a profound ability to alter what we see – but equally, we might be troubled by how little we can trust the image as #evidence. https://herri.org.za/3/michael-c-coldwell https://www.instagram.com/p/CDrYyxpHpeT/?igshid=1apmkv6jshuyt
Caravan Park from Everything is Real by Michael C Coldwell #illusion #photographytheory #caravanpark #surrealist #minimal #reflection #holidaysnaps #sociallydistanced #newtopographic https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeZeymndUF/?igshid=14x33z9t1irg0