So, this is goodbye
The project is a series of photographs made using my antique Argus 75 medium format film camera during a field trip to the Central Coast beaches, Maitland Bay, and Macmasters Beach. The idea of this series is to photograph things and people in a happenstance way during my stroll along these beaches. I welcome the chance meetings and accidents that mark the film due to its age and condition. I prefer to use intuition as a guide for when I take the photograph. I also like to experiment with using different color film from the usual stock found in camera shops; the film for these photographs is from a Russian film lab online. All these combinations come together and reveal a story of some sort when I have the film developed and can look through the prints. This story seems to be edging towards a goodbye to humankind and a return to nature.
Zorica Purlija
Zorica Purlija is an Australian/Montenegrin contemporary visual artist. Purlija’s work is based on attachment and care for the primary relationships and landscape. Her photographic practice draws on abstraction and collage to forge an ethereal reflective visual language. Purlija’s latest body of work focuses on connection to landscape, exploring the subtle clash of feeling in crashing water and the scrubby bushland of the northern coastal area. She builds visceral surface texture through glitch and superimposition, at once an intervention of traditional landscape photography and an encounter with the multiplicity of sensation. The Fall transports us to a place of harmony with nature; it also serves as a poignant call to action.
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