Anne Tallentire: This and other things.
The london based artist, Anne Tallentire has many interesting projects covering many different mediums. I do not think that her photography is her strongest area, the unremarkable objects she exposes with unremarkable lighting create images which personally i do not enjoy or find interesting but this style of image making causes the viewer to imagine what is around the photograph and also makes us want the image to be more than it is. Is this simply photographing for the sake of photographing? However, when i take away my golden section bias i can see that the juxtaposed compositions try to make statements about the things we do not notice. I think of a photograph as a moment of time in the past, wether seconds, days or years - it is always a reminiscent object for us to experience and cast our opinions . Tallentire's images go a little further than this and explain past events which have happened to the objects she captures, such as damage/discord. These ideas reveal a narrative which is prominent throughout quite a lot of her bodies of work. They leave me wondering what events had to transpire for these images to be made and i like how these are out of control of the photographer - almost natural events that she has stumbled upon.
Overall i would say that these images and the ideas behind them are growing on me and maybe have taught me to look outside my Magnum favourites and compositional comfort zone and look at images which at first do not come across visually strong yet still explain more about how they are made as they become more than the sum of all their parts - a phrase which i finally understand.
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