Photographer research

Moses Berkson is not your average surf photographer. He chooses to cover the improvised secrecy of surfing’s territoriality—the engineering of paths that lead to places that only true surfers know about. The artist has the ability to evoke the most ephemeral moments of the environment’s varying qualities of light, thus engaging the viewer to question his own notions of actuality and space, as well as universal temporality. Berkson’s first solo US exhibition, Coastal Access at The Constant Gallery, is a document of the photographer’s ongoing relationship with his home state of California. Recognizing that regionalism is ultimately a socially constructed notion, Berkson incorporates intimations of localism and physiologically recluse spatialities of non-places vis-à-vis emerging contentions of authenticity, artificiality and conflation in his captured moments. Without disclosing the locations of these elsewheres, he manifests historical apocrypha amidst the proliferating breeds of the feigning and the desiring. Coastal Access runs November 1 through November 29, 2008.
http://mosesberkson.com/

This guy's work sounds interesting and inspiring for my work. Coastal access is a big issue for us Northlanders and even down here in Dunedin you are starting to see areas of the natural coastline being sold to foreign (and local) people who restrict access to beaches etc. Its a key issue for surfers and anyone who loves the coast.

Other Invite

I think I like this one better, better colours.

Unbound Motion

I've Been working on a solo exhibition for a while now, and this week I have just realised how much I have to do in prepatation for it!!! Heres one of the invites I made for it. the name unbound motion comes from the ideas of freedom and motion that my work is portraying. I have been working on a video piece which I plan to have playing on a loop throughout the exhibition. I'm also showing a few photos, some of which may have appeared on my blog in previous posts. I'm trying to interlink them all in a way so that they aren't just pictures of snowboarding, or snowy mountains, but various other aspects of freedom and motion that I see in my journeys. Basically I'm wanting to show a coherrent body of work that all has continuity, but isn't too repetitive. Anyway I'm still working on it so I hope it all goes to plan.

Spring Shred

Winter has come to an end but there's still plenty of snow to shred. This weekend we went to The Remarkables and had lots of fun riding 'The Stash' all afternoon in the sun. Here's some pics of our last weekend snowboarding in 2008.

Micah (above) and Simon (below) getting some sweet air off this scary log-on-rock feature.



Me hitting the Hutt rail and roof, so fun!



Nows that winters over its probably time to do some actual work to post on my blog!!!