Rut Blees Luxemburg is a photographer whom I really like, last year I emulated her work for an assignment, the concept behind her images is really interesting. Luxemburg captures images of areas around London where she lives in the dead of night, looking for areas/ things that would tend to go unnoticed during the day amongst the everyday hustle and bustle of the city, however in the dead of night they are very apparent and noticeable against their surroundings. The fact that her images have that eerie feeling is really interesting. Luxemburg only light source is from street lights and lights that are on inside buildings in the surrounding area.
The thing that I like the most about the photographs that Rut Blees Luxemburg takes is the horrible eerie feeling that you are left with. having been so used to always seeing my city, as well as its surrounding areas so busy and full of people, to thinking about and sometimes seeing the city so empty and motionless due to the time of day it is. During the day the streets are bursting with people, but as soon as it hits a certain time, they slowly start to empty.
"Most
of Rut Blees Luxemburg’s pictures are night views of enormous buildings
and abandoned urban spaces. The city and civilisation are laid bare in
their infrastructures, in their nooks and crannies, as if we were
backstage in a theatre. No human figures are to be found here, but this
is no icy report on today’s inhumanity, either: on the contrary these
images are imbued with some vital force, like fragments of dreams where
intensely contrasting sensations—fear and desire, madness and
rationality—coalesce in an irresistible personal vision.
David Barriet, David Benassayag, Béatrice Didier" - http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A11/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ARL_3_VForm&FRM=Frame:ARL_32&LANGSWI=1&LANG=English
Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm's work is all about showing peoples darker sides, how we sometimes do totally outrageous and obscured things that you would never ever think about, and he wants to get into as many peoples minds as possible and make them think about that.
“I am interested in how people see themselves compared to the greater world as a whole.” Erwin Wurm.
The four photographs above are from a set titles 'Instructions on How to Be Politically Incorrect'. from my point of view what is happening within these photographs is totally strange and not even something I would ever think about doing, nor have I ever seen. But this is why he captures these photographs. I guess his intention it to grab you and make you think about what you are seeing. Not only is just what is happening within the images that is odd, but it is also the location of them, why would you have your head or arm down another persons trousers in the middle of the street!? why would you have your head down a womens jumper in a restaurant?! I'm totally taken aback with what I am seeing, however at the same time I cant stop looking at them because of the meaning behind them.
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