Abstract

CAVE PAINTING

Photography captures the reality of our world by a process of recording light as it falls across our camera sensors. For many, becoming proficient with the technical and compositional skills associated with photography is a fulfilling way for us to express our individuality by capturing the way we see the world. Others will see a camera as an alternative medium to using traditional artists tools, where they get to express their vision by abstracting a photographic image in the camera or post capture. Many of us have a foot in both traditional and alternative image making camps and those who lean more towards the latter through experimentation and trial are often able to create unique digital images.

Photographic abstraction is a creative process often with a high rate of failure. Techniques such as Intentional Camera Movement: Multiple Exposures: Cyanotype and the myriad of other alternative image creation techniques are almost akin to the prehistoric urge to paint on the wall of caves. Despite how far technology has developed the high performance we experience in our modern cameras, there is still an innate desire within us to reject or reuse this and daub our own vision of the manmade or natural world we live in.