Pete Askew
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Another series from the upcoming exhibition.
Of Time and Place
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Ivar Dahl-Larsen
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A fine story made visible, only the way you Pete can do. A very different eye than mine, but highly appreciated.
Pete Askew
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Thank you, Ivar. It really is interesting how differently we see the world isn't it, or maybe which elements draw us in.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
I’ll return to this, Pete, as I’m too tired at present to take it in. Looks sensitive and thoughtful, though.
Brian Moore
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Did someone mention beer...?
This is a quite wonderful set, Pete. At once mundane, and yet a fascinating glimpse into a home and a lifestyle.
This is a quite wonderful set, Pete. At once mundane, and yet a fascinating glimpse into a home and a lifestyle.
Pete Askew
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Thank, Brian. Various 'relatives' were puzzled as to why I would photograph what I did, but whenever they look at them it always starts a conversation. For me they are move evocative though, but I am looking as an outsider as it were.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Yes, it’s a very good cumulative look at a lifestyle that is looking increasingly old fashioned. The wallpaper alone speaks of another age. I say cumulative as the more images you add, the more we get a feel for the age and the people who lived there, which is much better than just a single shot.
Your processed colouration interests me more in that it says a lot about your relationship with the rooms and the people who lived in them, as if you are attempting to make them more evocative to an ‘outsider’ - yourself as well as us - and as if you are trying to come to terms with the psychology of being the outsider, a way of getting some control over your experience. There’s a distance here that you are finding hard to cross, so have sought a way engage with it without attempting to become part of it. The images are as much about you as of their content and the people who lived there. Arguably they are more about you.
Or something like that?
Your processed colouration interests me more in that it says a lot about your relationship with the rooms and the people who lived in them, as if you are attempting to make them more evocative to an ‘outsider’ - yourself as well as us - and as if you are trying to come to terms with the psychology of being the outsider, a way of getting some control over your experience. There’s a distance here that you are finding hard to cross, so have sought a way engage with it without attempting to become part of it. The images are as much about you as of their content and the people who lived there. Arguably they are more about you.
Or something like that?
Pete Askew
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Thanks, Rob. I think your interpretation of both the images (it is the set that makes them interesting rather than any single one) and the process. The processing was deliberate, but I was trying to make the mundane more glamorous to help people see what I saw and maybe that in itself is part of what you describe as 'fitting in'.
The comment about distance is interesting. I am certainly more 'voyeur' than 'participant' in much of my photography. Even with portraiture I try to position my view as an observer if that makes sense (in contrast with the more engaged style that you see with, for example, @Asun Olivan). I am quite a keen observer in all interpretations of the word keen I think. I take the role of outside quite seriously!
The comment about distance is interesting. I am certainly more 'voyeur' than 'participant' in much of my photography. Even with portraiture I try to position my view as an observer if that makes sense (in contrast with the more engaged style that you see with, for example, @Asun Olivan). I am quite a keen observer in all interpretations of the word keen I think. I take the role of outside quite seriously!
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Critique Welcomed - Green
After literally YEARS I'm posting here again just because I miss Pete Askew and he keeps ignoring my texts so this might catch his attention ;) Painterly portrait in green.
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