Digital photography and Photoshop virtuoso Helen Saunders transforms our everyday surroundings to construct landscapes that border fantasy and reality. Her focus is our changing environment, revealed in the interaction between man and nature, old and new.
Brass Gallery is proud to premiere new work by Helen featuring the Leeds landscape.
Helen Saunders in her own words:
The images in the 'Cities' series present a viewpoint from the peripheries of urban life, in particular the industrial areas that you would pass through to reach the centre. I'm interested in those hidden spaces which lie dormant and unpopulated, yet reveal the processes of civilisation. Here the changes are often most prominent due to streamlining of industry and regeneration. By digitally dissecting and re-constructing the landscape, I explore the history and shifts in the landscape.
The method of re-arranging reality references the painted landscape, which has historically been used as a means of re-framing the sublime power of nature, something now true of many man-made constructs. I take inspiration from this idealised and often romanticised vision of the world, but aim to create a tension between the photographic realism and surface beauty of the image.
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