Darren Rigo’s work Displacement examines people’s active engagement with the landscape. Trivial objects like bright coloured balloons float in green forests and lakes, forgotten, placed or discarded, but inevitably alluding to a human presence. As decorative elements they may have deprived the forest of its eerie qualities or functioned as a background for joyful celebrations. The associations are endless.
But Rigo is interested in more than narrative allusions. The beautifully captured light passionately celebrates each landscape and turns the ordinary objects into solitary, delicate figures taking a lead on stage. He creates a dialogue between man-made object, man and nature that speaks to questions of alliance and alienation. Ultimately he leaves the decision to us to decide if we belong or not and what character the ephemeral articles play.
- Lena Oehmsen, 2009
My portfolio can be found at http://www.darrenrigo.com/.
Lena Oehmeson’s work can be seen at http://www.lenaoehmsen.com/.
A series of images taken during a short stay in Broadview, Saskatchewan, while working with the community school during an artist in residency.
Rachel M Wolfe
www.rachelwolfe.com
rachelwolfe.com@gmail.com
Part of an ongoing series of environment based portraits.
Part of an ongoing series of environment based portraits.
Jamie Campbell makes jokes only he finds funny, but he convinces you to laugh all the same.
Jamie Campbell was born in the shadow of Niagara Falls, then he grew up and wiped the mist off his face and crossed the bulge of Lake Ontario to Toronto and Ryerson University and a BFA in Photography.
Jamie Campbell begins his MFA in Fine Arts- Photography at Concordia University in Montreal in September 2008.
Jamie Campbell works with the themes of insecurity, burden, vulnerability and desperation, but does it with self-deprecation and humour and profound honesty, leaving you unsure of whether you want to hit him or hug him.
Jamie Campbell is charming and disarming and surprising and warm, and would probably give you the shirt off his back because he is a nice guy and also because he is always wearing three or four.
Jamie Campbell rides an old brown bike everywhere he goes and has interesting facial hair and makes mild jokes at everyone’s expense, even his own, and he is an old-fashioned romantic and he is about as close to a fictional character as a real person can get.
Jamie Campbell has a website, which is – www.jamiecampbellphotography.com
