Jonathan Luckhurst
Monuments - autumn 2011
Recently, I was inspired by a lecture given by famed Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal. The crux of the lecture centered around the idea that all the elements of our body and of the planet were once in the belly of a star. In response to this lecture I decided to photograph landscapes that had a very primitive, disordered and slightly chaotic quality to them...landscapes that gave me a sense of what their origins must have been like. In order to accentuate these qualities I have incorporated various organic materials, such as charcoal, into the printing process.
It is important that I bring a semi - abstract quality to each photograph I make. I never attempt to create a literal interpretation of what I observe. I do not photograph to document.
In this sense I have been greatly influenced by the pictorialist approach to photography. Ultimately, the printing of the photograph is equally, if not more important, than the actual capturing of the image on film.
Influenced by the early pictorialists, Jonathan Luckhurst photographs entirely with film cameras and handprints in a traditional darkroom.
As an emerging artist, his work has been published and exhibited in Italy, France, Canada and the US. He has also received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
In 2011 his first book was published by Wave Editions (Italy).
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