Ballard\u2019s work will now be familiar to readers of 8 magazine \u2013 it\u2019s the compelling cryonics story in the current issue. The stark, clinical images point towards a future in which the self, or parts of the self, can be reanimated after being frozen. A couple of Peacehaven residents (a very quiet bungalowed place just along the coast) are already signed up. <\/p>\n
Ballard\u2019s work, shown along with Richard Chivers\u2019 dense images of quarrying in the Sussex countryside, Alex Currie\u2019s strangely beautiful photographs of industrial blots on the landscape and Simon Carruthers\u2019 fullframe examples of human consumption (which I would like to see printed even larger) collectively provided an thought-provoking take on the impact of humans on a living planet. <\/p>\n
While undoubtedly documentary, the work is of the kind that \u2013 is it through elegant composition, large format cameras, big prints, articulate artists\u2019 statements or all these things? (or something I am missing?) \u2013 positions itself as fine art. Either way, the work shows that Mark Power and others at Brighton are producing some fine graduates, who know not only how to take good pictures but how to put together a cohesive exhibition. It will be interesting to see what these four young photographers do next\u2026<\/p>\n
Max Houghton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"