Julia Curtin
(38 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London)
London College of Communication
Lives and works in London
The images shown are a selection from the series Resettlement, which were shown at the LCC BA Photography Degree Show 2009.
Inevitably when a three dimensional object is rendered into the two dimensions of a photographic representation elements are lost in translation. The photograph denies the phenomenological experience of that object in that space, limiting the view to one perspective predetermined by the photographer. Resettlement is an attempt to interrupt the usual process of perception, exploring perceptual issues intrinsic to the paradoxical relationship between the materiality of the flat, photographic print and it’s depiction of illusionistic space.
My initial interest resided in an attempt to physically deconstruct and subsequently reconstruct visual imagery in an effort to reconcile materiality with representation. In investigating the inherent structure of the photographic I selected as my source material images from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a vast collection of works by photographers that became central to defining aspects of the documentary and images that are embedded in the history of photography. Originally titled the Resettlement Administration, the U.S. government photography project forms an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944 and was established in an effort to gain support for Roosevelt’s New Deal programme. Resettlement focuses on the vernacular architecture, the transient, makeshift structures inhabited by the migratory victims of the 1930’s Great Depression, in an effort to gain a comprehension of the space depicted.
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