The work investigates the everyday amateur snapshot, often centring upon behaviour before a camera and the 'anti-pose'. Found photographs are selected from the mass proliferation of internet imagery, namely the phenomena of public photo-sharing sites. From these, evident repetitions and 'categories' are often highlighted.
As photographic storage shifts to the digital - computer files and online albums - the status of the photograph as memorial object is challenged. In the selection of image and act of painting there is instilled attention, solidity and essence to the "non-object" and ephemeral nature of the online digital photograph. |