A recent piece in The Telegraph succinctly says this about her work...
Clare Strand’s images are conceived, researched, developed and resolved
through a highly unusual and personal sensibility, using a clear and
decisive method of production unique to each project. Strand belongs to the
everyday, yet her images evoke the mesmeric, the talismanic and the
unsolvable. Solutions reporting the ordinary often turn up further layers of
complexity and reveal problems as yet un-considered. The hinterland to her
image making is provided by a childhood upbringing where a family life in a
suburban cul-de-sac was confounded by true crime magazines, ominous
supernatural events, Paul Daniels on Sunday evenings, and a flasher who
lived in the house opposite.
Subject matter dominates her work – photography and film are the mediums
through which her enquiries are mapped. Strand is interested by imagery in
which the aesthetic are secondary to function. Taking inspiration from
forensic imagery, instruction manuals, the conventions of signage, the
mechanics of spirit photography and photography employed to offer evidence
of an event or a task, her work treads the uncertain boundaries between the
expected and the absurd.
And there is new book about to be launched, Skirts, published by London based gostbooks. You can have a look at Skirts HERE. And if you're in Arles this year, you can see the show.
And there is new book about to be launched, Skirts, published by London based gostbooks. You can have a look at Skirts HERE. And if you're in Arles this year, you can see the show.
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