John Fontana
I have made several visits to Spurn Point over the last two and a half years.
I have produced a black and white landscape portfolio with which I was very happy. This showed much of what appeals to me about coastal photography. It also documented some of the uses and abuses to which this beautiful area has been subject.
I determined that I wanted to produce a series of images that concentrated on the impact of external forces such as tourism, vehicular traffic and the presence of people in an environment that remains wild and under the shaping influences of nature.
To me these forces felt like an unwelcome exploitation, and I decided to use a technique that mimicked the silk screen effect of Andy Warhol, an artistic approach that developed out of the desire to expose the commercial exploitation of the public by the media in the 60s in the States.
The images are intended to be stark, stripped down and gaudily coloured, to maximise their impact. For me they describe succinctly a feeling of Spurn that has stayed with me long after my last visit.
I have produced a black and white landscape portfolio with which I was very happy. This showed much of what appeals to me about coastal photography. It also documented some of the uses and abuses to which this beautiful area has been subject.
I determined that I wanted to produce a series of images that concentrated on the impact of external forces such as tourism, vehicular traffic and the presence of people in an environment that remains wild and under the shaping influences of nature.
To me these forces felt like an unwelcome exploitation, and I decided to use a technique that mimicked the silk screen effect of Andy Warhol, an artistic approach that developed out of the desire to expose the commercial exploitation of the public by the media in the 60s in the States.
The images are intended to be stark, stripped down and gaudily coloured, to maximise their impact. For me they describe succinctly a feeling of Spurn that has stayed with me long after my last visit.