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26 MAY - 19 JUNE
‘Things, photographed’
Against The Day is a literal translation of the French contre-jour, a term originally used to describe a compositional technique in painting. This is the practice of facing into the light, usually the sun, in order to exaggerate the dramatic and transformational possibilities of a subject in light. I am drawn to this process by my interest in what I guess could be called subjective camera. With this work I am, like in previous exhibitions, exploring what the camera can do to transform the subject rather than any particular attempt to bear witness to it.... I'm not so interested in the thing, so much as the photographing of the thing.
‘Say it, no ideas but in things.’ - William Carlos Williams 1927
Patrick Reynolds 09
In AGAINST THE DAY, Auckland photographer Patrick Reynolds explores the possibilities of a subjective camera and the transformative qualities of light. Inspired by the French Impressionist technique of contre-jour, Reynolds' images superbly capture a romantic and emotionally heightened sensibility.