Adam Henry
(27 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Swansea)
Swansea Metropolitan University
I have recently graduated from Swansea Metropolitan University where I studied Photojournalism BA(Hons).
My images portray elements of British society which I believe people generally overlook. I like my subject matter to invoke the viewer’s thoughts, giving them a fresh opinion.
This work usually involves the urban landscape which I photograph on a 6x7 medium format camera to capture intricate detail.
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As a lapsed skateboarder now turned photojournalist, with a dedicated interest in British social issues (especially in relation to our city space), I feel obligated to put forward the somewhat unreported and strangled viewpoint of the U.K. skate community.
The premise of my latest photographic work therefore is to bring to light the harsh realities faced by skateboarders over recent years and to explore the evident need to suppress their actions through expulsion and rejection from our city centres.
Throughout the nation an abundance of controlling and, arguably, over exhaustive anti-skate measures/devices are endlessly being hammered into the fabric of our so called ‘public spaces’.
‘Skate stoppers’, being the foremost example of such devices, are essentially chunks of metal added to benches and ledges to impede skateboarder’s use of an area, in order to stop these ledges being grinded away or ‘vandalised’ by them. Yet this later addition to the pre-existing architecture has itself been dubbed as ‘corporate vandalism’. Furthermore, this seemingly crude solution (when viewed in a wider context) subsequently infringes upon societies use of ‘public space’.
I am consequently compelled to communicate these issues in my work, acting as a voice for the wood pushing subculture to which I once belonged, whilst simultaneously engaging the viewer in an unconsidered subject matter which provokes them to reassess the city. |
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My Artworks (6)
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