Decay is a study based on Robert Adams’s series Summer Nights, Walking. Adams has deeply influenced my work, as have the Düsseldorf School and the 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, which shaped my path as a landscape photographer.
A study must come close to both the form and the content of its model. Form is easier to approach than content, but a study calls for a critical reading of both, and it is up to the viewer to judge how well they meet.
One element in these photographs has no counterpart in Adams’s work: a small replica of the armless Venus, which appears in every image. Once a goddess, now reduced to an ornament, the statue becomes in my hands an instrument to express decay and helplessness, and a way to move away from the original model.
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