The Brief: Salvage
Reclamation yards and scrap yards. What do people throw away? What can be resold? What can't? This week I intend to go on a hunt and find out. I aim to produce six or more images that work as a series.
Reclamation yards and scrap yards. What do people throw away? What can be resold? What can't? This week I intend to go on a hunt and find out. I aim to produce six or more images that work as a series.
For this brief I decided to work on instinct, I picked a day, picked up the yellow pages and found a couple of scrap/salvage yards in Preston and I went. The objects I photographed are the ones they stood out to me from the rest, the ones that got my attention and held it. Some of them were because they seemed familiar or for others it was the way they were laid out or even how the light fell on them. So I'll confess I didn't do any research before I shot these but I can't hurt to have a look now can it?
Find Number 1: Matthew Roby
He finds things in scrap yards and creates sculptures out of them.
http://www.matthewroby.co.uk/sculptures/
These are truly stunning and they are lighthearted which I like in artwork there is a lot of miserable stuff out there these days. Anyhow I digress, this is one way of looking at scrap, and making something new out of it. Something new, beautiful and very happy. I found myself deconstructing the pieces in my head and trying to work out what each bit was before it became art.
He finds things in scrap yards and creates sculptures out of them.
http://www.matthewroby.co.uk/sculptures/
These are truly stunning and they are lighthearted which I like in artwork there is a lot of miserable stuff out there these days. Anyhow I digress, this is one way of looking at scrap, and making something new out of it. Something new, beautiful and very happy. I found myself deconstructing the pieces in my head and trying to work out what each bit was before it became art.
Find Number 2: Scott Haefner - War Zone
http://scotthaefner.com/photos/keyword/Nighttime/2056/
A very beautiful image of a scrap yard. Haefner seems to specialise in nighttime photographary of the place where you would feel maybe unsafe or 'seedy'. The undesirable locals of the scrapyard and run down buildings become an almost covetable sights. These extreme long exposures give this world of rust and bent steel a just before dawn/dusk feel combined with an ethereality that only moon can offer.
Find Number 3: Various Flickr images.
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