T h e G l a s s

The Build Up

“You can’t photograph a memory” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Working from the idea of photographs as a factual record of the physical pres-ence, I have made it my main aim to capture emotion. Because of this, the physi-cal construction of each photograph has been simplified. I have used stillness contrasted with blurring of the figures, and simple composition in the images to explore the use of movement as a means of expression.

The memory of emotion is sometimes much stronger than the actual events that took place, so I was interested in replaying the emotions of loss, grief, frustra-tion, and loneliness in front of the camera.

The second series of the Fiction assignment almost continues on from the first series with the same subject and ideas, yet with a different emotion. Where the first series uses the window as a way to communicate a longing for something external, the mirror in the second set represents a struggle that is experienced internally.

The internal struggles that people experience can isolate them and be frustrat-ing to communicate to others. I was trying to convey this with sense of isolation by blurring the face and using odd reflections that don’t quite match the ‘real’ figure (from the angle of the camera).

Sundari CarmodyJune 2009

Room 1

The Mirror

Room 2

The Window

The Glass

Sundari Carmody