Research- A couple more

On my research quest, I also found a couple more photographers who have covered or at least included work that I'm interested in making.

Will Steacy's image below is taken from his series, "Down These Mean Streets" and unlike the work I looked at in my previous entry, this is more the place you expect to see this kind of thing. Perhaps that's stereotypical, but as he states in his statement, it's a place you'd drive through, not to. A place you'd avoid. The car always seems to act like an omen for that; a message or a warning to stay out.

That's an aspect of photographing the ruined cars I hadn't previously thought about, and perhaps one to think about considering.


The images below are by Richard Mosse. I really like these images, they're a slightly different approach to the images I've been looking at previously because a lot of them is about their lighting. The ethereal, if not hazy, yet slightly sinister feel to them.

Also the ambiguity of where exactly these cars are also fascinates me. It looks like the desert but the title of the project, "Nomads", doesn't help you reach a conclusion and the lack of text leaves it open to interpretation. What I found out from investigating further was that these were taken in war zones.

As soon as I knew that, I began seeing the images differently. The hazy light stopped looking mysterious, and seemed to become a mask. A way of hiding the terror that lies behind these images and how exactly those vehicles ended up looking like this.