Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Simon Kavanagh



Simon Kavanagh’s snapshots of photos from his extensive travels are a wonderful group of work. He does not let on to which country any of them are from, but invites you to see if you can guess. He utilizes both a manual and digital camera for these pictures. No image is enhanced or altered from the original. The photos represent architecture, signs and people that inspired him along the way.  

I appreciate the wide range of content in this series. Kavanagh also takes advantage of different elements of the camera and film to compose his perfect snapshot. The use of slow shutter speed to accentuate the city lights at night is very effective. As a photographer, living in DC, I did an entire dedicated the magical quality these lights take on when blurred and splashed across the film. They truly do seem to vibrate like musical notes. 

Kavanagh’s perspective is quite interesting. He continually crops out elements leading one to focus on only what he saw. One picture is even taken from an upside down perspective. All of the pictures capture a mood. He achieves this through his use of available light, film choice, angle, depth of field or time of day. Even the blurry images convey a sense of urgency. The images, as a whole, were a delight to view.

 The images can be seen at:

http://www.mediartists.net/

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