Lisa Barnard
Lisa Barnard is one of the featured artists from this years photography festival. In her series, titled “The Canary and The Hammer”, Barnard details the inherent human reverence of gold and its affair in the ruthless endeavour of progress. A common theme amongst the series is the investigation into man’s abstract but innate desire to occupy territory.
The project was photographed across four years and four continents connecting seemingly disparate issues and aesthetics through a mix of stills, moving images and archival materials.
I am drawn to her work as I can see elements of pollution, where one image demonstrates an industrial landscape and another showcases a dirty river in the form of a portrait.
Jaakko Kahilaniemi
Jaakko Kahilaniemi is another of the featured artists from the 2018 Guernsey Photography Festival.
100 Hectares of Understanding is an exploration of an 100 hectare area of forest in Finland, inherited by Jaakko in 1997 when he was only 8 years old. The project includes both tangible and intangible approaches and visualizations of what forest and forestry mean to the photographer and how the unknown becomes familiar.
I was drawn to this series due to its simple aesthetic. The viewer is forced to think about the concept behind objects in the images.
