‘Presence of Absence’
Toby Millinder at Here and Now Gallery
Toby graduated from Falmouth College of Arts last year and has since travelled to China, where he practiced Shaolin kung fu and learnt to speak Mandarin. He continued with his photography whilst there, with his landscape enquiries and reportage. With a Shaolin monk and a friend he wrote and shot a book about Shaolin kung fu; soon to be published.
The china project was funded with a series of work that won the Thomas Gowar memorial Prize affiliated with the British Institution of Professional Photography (BIPP).
Artist statement:
“The seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photographs are portraits of the people that take them, not necessarily a visual likeness but more of an internal portrait of their inner landscape of emotion, personality and philosophy. The camera is traditionally deemed as a receptacle, however I see it as a projector; well the eye as the projector and the camera as the implement for the eye to project through. I invest myself within the scenes I make photographs from, either feeling compelled to shoot or to construct scenes. The images in ‘Presence of Absence’ explore the way in which the deeper levels of the mind construct images via memories.
All work is framed with hand made English oak frames, or set within tables.
Web: www.tobymillinder.com
Contact: info@tobymillinder.com
Tel: 07859925493
Here and Now contact:
www.heregallery.co.uk
41a killigrew, Street ,Falmouth
