Limbo
Limbo is described as the feeling of being in between, a feeling of liminality that I have documented in Industrial and Suburban landscapes.
The work engages with the theory of the uncanny, which is the psychological experience one undergoes when encountering oddly familiar spaces that have been constructed following a template. The viewer experiences discomfort as the surrounding environment starts to look fabricated, pushing it beyond the conventions of nature to become supernatural and alien. In my practice I seek to explore the environments in which this occurs.
I am interested in spaces that have become lifeless and the notion of absence: absence of the creator, absence of the user and absence of the soul. By encountering these spaces through my lens I have responded to their uncanny sensibilities, reappropriating them into spaces to be looked at. The work documents the presence of humanity, traces we leave behind, without the human being present.
Darren Campion: “Photographers seem drawn to marginal areas, places in-between, or nowhere in particular. With Limbo Barney Jobson focuses on such indeterminate landscapes, crossing over between suburban/urban, industrial/rural. Jobson uses a familiar grey tonality and static compositions to good effect. While apparently neutral or descriptive the style of the work flattens out differences and connects disparate locations. This deliberate lack of specificity is telling; places that are nowhere really could be anywhere”.
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August 24. Objective: Company Town
July 24. Source Photographic. BA Graduate Photography Showcase
