From Daguerreotypes through to Photoshop, the history of
photography has been filled with fraudsters, tricksters and
illusionists. It is firmly within this tradition that I
position myself as a photographer. This is because I make
fantastical images within the confines of my studio. Images
that reveal to the viewer the infinite possibilities of
imagined, manufactured and constructed worlds.
I have recently completed a new body of work called
Facet. The facet interests
me because it allows me to grow my own hermetic worlds
from basic household chemicals.
All the landscapes, flora and fauna I have been visualising
recently are hyper aestheticised versions of a
hallucinatory world. Visually lush with a semi-abstract
edge, these landscapes and unnatural constructions allow
respite from our own world — one saturated by
messages of environmental and economic gloom. Perhaps they
preempt a future where new species reign over a world
devoid of human presence.
If you want to see what I was producing a few years ago,
give the Archive section a go. It houses work
created in the past but which I think still stand the
test of time.
Petlamb
Peter Lambropoulos — Photo-Artist, Melbourne, Australia.
