Something | Somewhere Magazine Grim Art 01

Something | Somewhere Magazine Grim Art 01
36 Pages
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When taking photographs, I travel alone. I enjoy the lack of distraction, being left alone to find myself somewhere else. The mind clears, the internal chatter stops and the looking begins. This state has taken a while to attain and surprisingly, it takes practice to be quiet, to slow down and to find the frame that sits waiting.

For the last two years, I’ve resisted taking pictures of anything other than Brutalist buildings. Often I’d ignore things because, in some way, I don’t want to show a place as rundown or at the very least, has seen better days. It felt like I was doing the place a disservice, so I ignored the urge for the longest time.

A change of camera and the opportunity to spend all day at a location changed that way of thinking. I started collecting pictures to complement my brutalist pictures. Not being sure what to call them, I settled with “Grim Art”, because I think it suited them better than “mundane” or “banalogy” which I feel don’t speak to the people who design and make the objects in my photographs. So, “Grim Art” it is.

Martin

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