SHRED OR DEAD

So on remembrance day Brendon, Jason, Yvonne and I went on a little roadtrip to Hope, British Columbia. This day was pretty epic for me. Not only a whole day of driving with three awesome friends, but I shot three rolls of film, and made 27 prints from one day. In the process of making these prints I had a lot of really good thoughts about the creation of memories in photographs.

I entered these five photographs into a student photo contest, though I’m not sure the email got through in time. We’ll see what happens.

I also wrote this as my “Artists Statement”:

Dylan Davies is a photographer who works solely with traditional analog processes. He photographs primarily skateboarding, and aspects of skateboarding culture. His work though, like skateboarding, is influenced by his life, and is an attempt to create and explore the ideas of memories. Whether he functions literally in his work, or more abstractly, dealing with memory is an attempt to understand the significance of photographing during the shift into a digital era.

The Hope body of work concerns memory in an age where photographs are losing their ability to create meaningful memories. The Age of Digital images makes a visual landscape of photographs our body is not able to understand without the aid of a computer. This work is shot and produced traditionally to make silver-gelatin prints which serve as a memory for the landscape and our place within it. They are objects which preserve an image we can readily understand without the aid of computer technology.

Oh yeah, I apologize if the tones are a bit warmish/magenta, I didn’t really feel like touching them up in the hurry I was to get the images emailed out.

Also, pretty stoked about a lot of things right now. JUST SO YOU KNOW.