PSEUDONYM
This photographic project was commission to recognise and give attention to the community that St Kilda Gatehouse help.
The work invokes the genre of paranormal photography to observe a re-visitation of moments and places, like an envisioned environmental portrait of a subject that is, in many ways, invisible.
Without direct experience, it’s impossible to really judge where another person is in their life; an appearance supported by their physical reality. Unless our attention and sympathy is drawn by certain facts, stories, revelations, impressions...we are literally, bystanders to each other. Sometimes, through abstract ideas and allegories, art has the ability to get us closer, or, at least, allows us to get an insight to another world that is outside of the one we create around ourselves.
These images function as visual markers that are based on accounts, experiences and locations frequented by an individual that remains nameless and unknown. These ordinary and commonplace scenes suggest an inner, psychological perspective, as if there is always someone present in the picture, urging to be seen.
In association with St Kilda Gatehouse & LCI Melbourne
Produced by Justine Roach.
Stories and background information by Andie Patchett.
To be exhibited at LCI Melbourne May 5th, 2022
Essay by Alasdair Foster
