Colourful Trash
The mundane concepts that has been captured photographically in this video is trash and colour. Although the term 'trash' is often referred to as the typical waste we create and dispose of, such as bottles, containers and paper; I've found that it goes beyond that - it can be as simple as a chair or of a much greater magnitude like a car or building. However, they can also be considered as objects that have been abandoned and disowned by the previous owners, but they still display signs of new life as seen by the graffiti and stencil art covering them after they had been abandoned. As such, my photographs capture both aspects of the notion of trash, in some photographs there are graffiti-covered dumpsters and SULO bins and others are a lone fire extinguisher left in an abandoned warehouse and an staircase in an abandoned building in Berlin. The music that accompanies the video compliments the colour and tone the images set. The eeriness and moody nature of the song correlates well with the bursts of colours from the photographs as well as the notions of dilapidation and the mysterious undertones the abandoned objects and its surroundings radiate through the pictures.
Music: Yumi, "Radiohead - Nude (yumix)" (2011)
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Camera: Canon EOS 7D, Nikon P7000
Shooting locations: Sydney (Dunlop Factory 2012), Melbourne (2011), Berlin (2012) and Mykonos (2012)
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