A new exhibition launching at Stantonbury Campus today (Aug 31) revisits all of those old photographs that have been lying dormant in the archives of our past.
My Luminous Life is the work of James T. Tearle BA.
James says many of us have a big box of photos documenting our time from baby to adult lurking somewhere, remnants of what came before digital storage, and that is most certainly the case with Total MK - we've a very large box crammed full of thousands of old snaps!
“There is something unique about the generation of adults in their thirties that make them old enough that they didn't grow up with the level of imagery at their fingertips that the youth of today enjoy, but are still young enough to utilise such image capture in the same manner as this younger generation,” James said.
“This means many people of a similar age to myself have a disparity in their photographic collection.
“Most will have a big box somewhere full of 35mm photos documenting their life from baby to adult, and then a cut off in their mid-twenties where everything becomes stores digitally and rarely becomes a solid thing.”
James has revisited those photos, enlarged them, reduced them to grey shadows and coloured them with highlighters.
“I therefore re-engage with memories that have long since been miss-filed, memories that can't simply be scrolled through via the click of a mouse, but often mean more to us by their scarcity and are more likely to reveal significant events in our life rather than the standard drunken selfie or dinner shot of the modern world.
“The exhibition is meant as a spectacle to behold where the significance of the final wall of memories – which are hung wall to ceiling – coupled with the cathartic process of creating the work, means more than the quality and craft of the individual pieces.
My Luminous Life will be available to view through to September 13 and entry is free.
