Shadowlands: Light and Darkness on the Urban Edge
PHOTOGRAPHY: Nigel Dawson
MUSIC: Chris Ashton
LOCATIONS: London & Sheffield
Unofficial Britain is proud to present a selection of films by artist Nigel Dawson, sound-tracked by Chris Ashton.
In these stark, photographic mutations of the everyday, human ghosts lurk in the shadows of high-rise housing estates, derelict buildings and industrial edgelands.
Dawson explains: “The location of these photographs include Hackney, the Lea valley, and various other areas in London and Sheffield. The images are manipulated in post processing, using a technique I have perfected over many years.
My love of the urban landscape started when I was at school. When I got home, me and my friends would go out into the local countryside and inevitably end up in derelict buildings. I can still smell the damp and a sense of the passage of time in these places. It put my imagination into overdrive.
I do not see my art as concerned with place in a topographic sense. Instead I seek to evoke the dynamic of the environment,…. its spiritual and physical energy…. its fundamental mystery. The haunting soundtracks to these films are as important as the images themselves, and are composed and played by Chris Ashton.”
LONDON: THE DARK CITY
SHADOWLANDS
INVISIBLE SUN
btyABOUT THE ARTIST
Nigel Dawson is an artist and photographer based in Northamptonshire. His current work focusses on the urban landscape.
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