from Travelling the wonderful loneliness 2019-2024
During 2019 I took a photographic journey through Europe. The trip was an ascetic experience, hardly talking to anyone for 2 months, immersed in photography, taking almost 10,000 photographs on three digital cameras. I have whittled these photographs down to around 120 images in four sequences.
This sequence (my favourite in my latest body of work), Dark Light, is one of the four sequences in the series collectively titled Travelling the wonderful loneliness (2019-2024). Traces of order / chaos seen clearly; previsualisation was strong.
Other sequences in the series include Material Witness; Tell Me Why; and (How I) Wish You Were Here (all 2019-2024).
My friend and mentor Ian Lobb said:
“This is the most difficult work to organise yet. There is something to see in every picture – but it is so subtle – not everyone will see it, but it is for people who look at pictures a lot.
It all works brilliantly, and they are all like that – there are subtle things that can’t be traced: i.e. are they the photographer: or are they the camera or are they just inevitable in this world? It is a type of anti-spirituality meets spirituality… and any number of other meeting points.”
My friend Elizabeth Gertsakis said:
“Spatial as well as surface tactile. Fascinated randomness. The human figure appears as a singular frozen device. Post-apocalyptic as well.”
I said:
“The spirit has left the earth, the body; something is not quite right; ambiguous forces of the (under) world are at play.”
Dr Marcus Bunyan
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© Marcus Bunyan
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