CY FrankelBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: London
Middlesex University
Born and bred in London, I am graduating from Middlesex University with a first class honours degree in Photography.
By nature I am one to observe rather than experience. I look rather than get involved, and photography becomes the bridge that allows me to connect with the things that I attempt to portray. My work is a mixture of portraiture and landscape, the combination of which I use to narrate a story that is often close to home, figuratively or literally. In the series “My Brent Cross”, I embark on a process of discovering and rediscovering the place in which I live before an imminent regeneration project changes it for ever. The project throws up themes of urban life, consumerism and shopping culture. As well as a survey or documentation, it is as much the personal reaction of someone who calls Brent Cross "home".
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Work of art I would like to makeFor my next photography project I would like to move further beyond the linear narratives or documentary stories that I have been exploring until now. I am interested in what gives a photographic image or series meaning, who decides how an image is read, and how far photography’s indexicality can be stretched.
The new work would combine my two passions – photography and writing. I propose a photography series where the photographs are prompted by nothing in particular – by my feelings that day, by whatever I happen to see that is interesting, by happenstance. Having built up a large collection of these photographs, I will then select a number of them for exhibition and invent a narrative for them in the form of a fictional short story or poem that will link the set together, thus subverting the assumption that photographs tell a truth or reflect a specific reality. |
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