Peter Fraser - Deep Blue
Four of my favourite photographs by Peter Fraser from his series Deep Blue. I’d love to get prints of them one day!
A healthy fear of machines and robots taking over the world has been part of life since at least the Industrial Revolution, and has a long and celebrated history in fiction and artistic expression. It more recent years, such nerve-wracking paranoias have been the domain of cheeseball Emilio Estevez movies, DARPA conspiracy nuts and Tesla apologists. All the more reason, then, to find a curiously human warmth in Deep Blue, Peter Fraser’s small collection of machine portraits. Shooting an articulating robotic arm against a sumptuous pink backdrop or a boxy communications satellite in front of an aquamarine blue, Fraser manages a formalized portraiture where light and angle conspire uncomfortably with the shape and nature of, say, a main thrust rocket motor, to convey something like personality. A regular particle accelerator magnet is, apparently, welcoming and open whereas a super-conducting high-gradient magnet appears to be somewhat aloof, haughty even. Beneath this somewhat playful posturing of machines is an emotional and philosophical dilemma for the modern age; as computers and powerful mechanized tools become more complex and intuitive and human life grows increasingly rote, is there a border being blurred? Fraser argues that the psychological line was crossed for most of the world when IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeated Gary Kasparov in a 1997 chess match. Since then, surgical implants, artificial intelligence and robotic aids have progressed almost exponentially. Fraser doesn’t posit any doomsday scenarios, he simply finds a machine that intrigues him, sets up the camera and lets the two devices have a conversation.
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Alexander McQueen - “SAVAGE BEAUTY” {Exhibition} #1
One day I will be photographing gowns like these <3
From my latest set of work called These Are Our Lost Strangers, exploring the idea of pasts, presents, futures, how they are ever changing, and how your own family can become a stranger to you.
‘These are our lost futures’ is what could have been, strangers that could have been known. They are all love interests of my Mother’s, and represent the futures that could have been which are now strangers to us.
They are people who were once a big part of my families future, but if they had been then I wouldn’t have been.
These are strangers who could have made me a stranger.
From my latest set of work called These Are Our Lost Strangers, exploring the idea of pasts, presents, futures, how they are ever changing, and how your own family can become a stranger to you.
‘These are our lost loved ones’ are a group of photographs of my family members who have passed away, so relationships past.
I know all their faces, I know all their names and putting these photographs together was bitter sweet. It is amazing to see all these photographs I didn’t know existed, but also made me wish that we could have had more.
These are memories lost, and memories that could have been.
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Free People March 2013 Lookbook
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The colours o.O I love stuff like this! It just feel like summer (:
