Thursday, February 25, 2016

Dave Heath Exhibition



Dave Heath Exhibition

The Dave Heath Exhibition was probably one of my favorite photograph exhibitions I have seen. While walking through the exhibition I realized that there wasn’t just one or to pictures that really caught my attention, but almost all of them. Dave Heath’s Exhibition expresses a bittersweet vision of modern life in his powerful photographs of loss and hope. These elements of his photographs are jaw dropping and some cause you to not want to move your gaze from staring at them. His photos go further than just registering time and space, but rather they suggests a story. A story that takes place behind the surface of the photograph and in the mind of the viewer. The stories I took from the photographs are probably different what others experience, just because we all have different imaginations. A dialogue is thus created between the image and the viewer which stimulates their imagination.
It seems like most of his pictures weren’t taken on purpose but rather were a result of Dave Heath going where life led him. It seems like some of the photographs are a reflection of private experiences of his, and that others are inspired by him being carried away in the lives of other people or cultures. The way he focuses his images and shows his subjects, it is like he presents them through the lens without prejudice, and that is one reason I was so interested by his photographs.

The photos that I have attached here were some of my favorite ones from the exhibition. I liked these photographs so much because they are so raw and express such an emotional feeling. There was something about them that just really caught my eye and made me not want to look way. Their deep sorrow and obvious pain make them so intense and made me so curious as to wonder what happened when the photo was being taken. 

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