Now it's time.
The birth.
The born.
The awakening.
The first blog post to As One Curation.
And as a treat, I am showcasing photographer Peter Currie, a resident of O' Canada and a current Concordia University student.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him about his latest series of images ON/OFF. I found Peter's wonderful website while browsing varies photography outlets such as Flickr, Tumblr, etc. I am so happy and humbled to have him on the curation.
(on/off architectural study; Peter Currie)
Your
ON/OFF Series, please give our readers an explanation to this
wonderful body of images?
My On/Off series came about last
fall when I was shooting an architecture assignment for my first
year color class at Concordia. After I shot the original four images
that played with combing light, I was chatting my professor, Clara
Gutsche, and we both felt it was something I could continue into the
winter semester. Once I had a concrete idea around what I was trying
to find, and photograph I set out to make the images possible. I
find working within a timeframe of four months helped me progress
the photos, and also the short spam of time was motivating to pull
everything together quickly. With this rapid pace, I was able to
edit the images down to a final series of 15 photos, hand printed,
on 16x20 paper. I wanted to print big, because I felt that 8x10, or
11x14 couldn’t do justice to the subject matter. The scenes
themselves are big, and have lots of detail, so I wanted the viewer
to feel that in the final product.
(on/off architectural study; Peter Currie)
Your
work explores a lot with space and angles, what do you think this
attributes too?
I
think that the way On/Off came together like a lot of photography was
that it was right place, right time, and right idea. The third
photograph in the series was the first image I shot and recognized
something distinct, and just ran with it. As the body of work matured
over the next few months, that’s when I really started to consider
the space, and angles that became so significant in the final images.
The reason I wanted to focus on this type of architectural
photography was because it was a totally new experience. I’ve never
shot anything like this before and now feel like my work could
progress in that direction. When shooting I’ve always been really
conscious of composition and after making the images from On/Off, I
want those trends to fall into future work.
What
are your preferred mediums? Would you ever want to dabble your work
into say the mixed media side of art?
For
now I’m hooked on medium format. I’ve always been stuck on the
6x7 format with the odd roll of 6x6 a few years back. Typically for
what I like to shoot, I find it doesn’t look as strong in square
format. In the future I would love to begin pushing myself into 4x5
color, and black and white – if my wallet can handle it. As for
dabbling in mixed media, I don’t think I’m in a place just yet to
be pushing myself away from photography. I want to shoot a few more
portfolios that are consistent, and that I’m proud of, then move
from there.
(on/off architectural study; Peter Currie)
(on/off architectural study; Peter Currie)
What
are your future goals with your imagery? Any exciting news you'd
like to share?
Right
now I’m just shooting, and having fun with it. But this fall I’m
going to be starting some new projects for my second year. I want to
continue shooting architecture and push that along, but I really
would love to work on some portrait work as well. Come September I’ll
have some ideas mapped out, then start to put them into action.
(on/off architectural study; Peter Currie)
Peter Currie
by - Anthony R
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