© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
© All copyright Peter Gates
PETER GATES
«These 10 pictures represent work in progress. I want to express the experience of a detached presence, drifting through the urban environment, drawn to the fragmentary or sidelined or re-contextualising what we normally consider important or significant in attempt to explore and catalogue the spaces and gaps in contemporary existence. This I consider analogous to the silences and pauses that define musical structure. More generally my photographic practice is concerned with the poetry of the everyday. I am interested in the landscape in which the epic daily life unfolds and the detail around which this endless cycle is played out.
I am drawn to the sculptural, compositional and cultural qualities of my own environment. The play of light on surface, colour, spatial relationships between unremarkable objects and the implicit and ambiguous metaphor these combined elements can evoke. I am in pursuit of an unresolved narrative told through the crystallization of time, meditative glances at the spaces in-between and that which takes place at the intersection of concrete reality and subjective perception».
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