For me, when i originally looked at this work online, i didn't get much of a kick and wondered what i would experience when i got to the Brancolini Grimaldi gallery in London, and in fact i was pleasantly surprised at how i responded to the work.
The work is a series of images that is created digitally through the use of data surveys of certain terrains. They're not just any terrains, they are areas of Western America, that were once photographed by the likes of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, yet Holdsworth captures them in a completely different and technically updated way. Rather than beautiful landscapes caught on large format, we have these 'New Remote Earth Views' to gaze upon. These large grey prints that are accompanied by smaller prints of ground level views (they to me seemed like a back ground study piece, to show the smaller details) made much more of an impression on me than i had imagined.
There was certainly something about how the images were of a muted grey colour, which were surrounded by the vast white walls. For me this made it feel like a digital creation, and i think the colour is an important part as any element in this work. Should the colour be white, it would say something very different, like a connection to crumpled paper, or should the colour have been green, it would connote ideas of open fields for example.
Whether it was the way in which the images were created, or the link to older practices that have existed and captured by other great photographers i can't decide, but i really do like this work and think the new twist and 'Transmission' on the way we capture images now is something that will be pushed even more-so over the future years.
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| Yosemite, 2012. |
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| Grand Canyon. 2012 |
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