MASLEN & MEHRA

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Contemporary Artspace
London 1997-2000
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About this series of work:

Creating this work is quite a layered process that utilizes traditional methods and skills. We start by photographing the subject matter; for example we photographed people on the streets of London and iconic London buildings. We fabricated sculptures based on these original photographs. The sculptures were then set up in various compositions in different contexts and then re-photographed with a lovely old medium format camera. We clearly state that they are photographed sculptures to eliminate the idea that the images have been constructed in Photoshop.

The people were originally photographed in busy urban areas such as Liverpool Street Station and Oxford Street London. We have captured the body language and movement of people in the throes of their busy working lives. We have then transformed the context by photographing them in open spaces and sometimes vast, spectacular and seemingly endless landscapes.

So far we have made prints of this work and large-scale light boxes. (See light-box images). The size of the largest light-box pictured is 194.5 X 135 X 10 cm. The smaller light-box is 82.5 X 62 X 13.5 cm. High quality Duratrans (transparency for lightbox) have been made for the light boxes. Two of the light-boxes pictured are re-used advertising displays from Kings Cross Station. We have chosen to re-use existing boxes, shifting the context and meaning of a familiar urban object.