Title of work: Home by 7
Statement: Home by 7 is a project that glimpses into some of London's flashy city centre offices, with a focus on displaying office employees working into the dark winter evenings.
The aim with this project is to showcase the somewhat bleak reality of what is often viewed as a lavish urban lifestyle. With an objective of questioning how beneficial it really is to the individuals subjected to this modern and seemingly necessary way of life.
Is the dreamlike promise of a stable bank account and addictive nature of illusive progress drawing us away from what it is to be truly unbound?
Title of work: BLIND PANIC
Statement: PANIC (noun)- a sudden strong feeling of fear or worry that makes you unable to think clearly or calmly. sheer/BLIND PANIC.
In already uncertain times the covid-19 pandemic has left the streets of London largely deserted. With those who dare to venture out challenged by the law and a widespread fear implemented by the mass media and government.
This photo-book aims to investigate the power of mass media and
capitalist government control and the part it has to play in the somewhat panicked actions of the citizens of London amongst the covid-19 pandemic.
capitalist government control and the part it has to play in the somewhat panicked actions of the citizens of London amongst the covid-19 pandemic.
Format: Photo-book (the images shown bellow are only a small selection from a much larger body of work).
Side note: Also worth mentioning I am not a conspiracy theorist, I had close family members who worked on the hospital wards during the pandemic, and lost family members to Covid-19. The purpose of this book is to display the power and influence of the media/ government, the pandemic is merely used to showcase this. My heart goes out to all the victims of the Covid pandemic.
Title of work: 01001001
Statement: Ben’s work consists of a series of images created purely by exposing a piece of 35mm film twice. The purpose of this technique is to represent a multidimensional sense of subject and overall environment within a single image.
This imaging technique is important in enabling a deeper comprehension of the work, as it aims to further immerse the viewer in the fast-paced central London environment pictured.
By doing this, Ben aims to create a connective realisation to an ever more ordinary aspect of modern life, that the majority of people have fallen victim to in some sense. Fundamentally, this being the loss of singularity that a fast-paced city lifestyle brings; often caused by a conjunction of advertisements, media, digitalisation and capital control.
The work is appropriately titled “01001001” which translates from binary code to I - an ironic play in the increasing lack of true individuality in an ever more systematically driven social mass.
Title of work: Tunnel Vision
Statement: Tunnel Vision - The loss of peripheral vision with retention of central vision, resulting in a constricted circular tunnel-like field of vision.
In a society where awareness of your surrounds is becoming evermore important due to the fast moving pace of modern city life; we are becoming increasingly distracted by tehcnology, overwhelmed by day to day survival and controlled by the very socail mass which we are a part of.
In this book I explore the London Underground and the tunnel like vision present within it, which many city goers are plagued with by a society built around ones and zeros. Are we becoming products of the system or are we just merely socially awkward commuters going about our business? You decide.
