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"This picture took time to make: an exposure of more than an hour. I needed absolute stillness. There was no sound. I think of it as collapsing time onto a sheet of film held in a large-format plate camera. I opened the shutter, locked it open, then sat down quietly and waited. This series stands in stark contrast to the idea of photography as a 'decisive moment' - Nadav Kander -
This title of the series, Colour Fields, is taken from the term colour field painting, used by Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko (among others) to describe the stripping away of figuration in order to evoke meditative responses to what is largely unseen, yet available to the senses. Kander works to reveal just enough; the lit area fading into blackness invokes the mystery of the unseen and unknown, leaving the viewer to wonder what dangers or secrets lie waiting in the vast, impenetrable darkness.
The Colour Fields series, which includes nocturnal Field images, like this one, marks a departure from Kander's traditional documentary landscape photography. The title of the series is taken from the term 'Colour Field painting', used by Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko (among others) to describe the stripping away of figuration in order to evoke meditative responses to what is largely unseen, yet available to the senses.
By capturing isolated rural or coastal environments strictly at night under the stark illumination of artificial light sources, Kander creates landscapes that cannot be perceived in natural conditions. He works to reveal just enough; the lit area fading into blackness invokes the mystery of the unseen and unknown, leaving the viewer to wonder what dangers or secrets lie waiting in the vast, impenetrable darkness. The series strips away geographical specificity, rendering mundane agricultural spaces or roadside strips as surreal, theatrical stages. Rather than capturing a decisive moment in time, the work serves as a sensuous, sustained meditation on human intervention and the unnatural quiet of the dark.
"This picture took time to make: an exposure of more than an hour. I needed absolute stillness. There was no sound. I think of it as collapsing time onto a sheet of film held in a large-format plate camera. I opened the shutter, locked it open, then sat down quietly and waited. This series stands in stark contrast to the idea of photography as a 'decisive moment' - Nadav Kander -
This title of the series, Colour Fields, is taken from the term colour field painting, used by Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko (among others) to describe the stripping away of figuration in order to evoke meditative responses to what is largely unseen, yet available to the senses. Kander works to reveal just enough; the lit area fading into blackness invokes the mystery of the unseen and unknown, leaving the viewer to wonder what dangers or secrets lie waiting in the vast, impenetrable darkness.
The Colour Fields series, which includes nocturnal Field images, like this one, marks a departure from Kander's traditional documentary landscape photography. The title of the series is taken from the term 'Colour Field painting', used by Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko (among others) to describe the stripping away of figuration in order to evoke meditative responses to what is largely unseen, yet available to the senses.
By capturing isolated rural or coastal environments strictly at night under the stark illumination of artificial light sources, Kander creates landscapes that cannot be perceived in natural conditions. He works to reveal just enough; the lit area fading into blackness invokes the mystery of the unseen and unknown, leaving the viewer to wonder what dangers or secrets lie waiting in the vast, impenetrable darkness. The series strips away geographical specificity, rendering mundane agricultural spaces or roadside strips as surreal, theatrical stages. Rather than capturing a decisive moment in time, the work serves as a sensuous, sustained meditation on human intervention and the unnatural quiet of the dark.
