Remnants
By Duane Prentice nomadicvisio
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Category: Fine Art Photography
Tags: West Coast, Vancouver Island, passage of time, forgotten glory, crumbled walls, disused machinery, remnants, Canada, past, history, coal, forests, roadways, rain, precipitation, signs, wreckage, loss, globalisation, industry, power, nature, rural, hotels, abandoned, decayed, forgotten, fishing, water
Remnants,
Remnants is a collection of images of Vancouver Island, on Canada's west coast, taken by photographer Duane Prentice. The series is photographed with an 8 x 10 view camera during the winter months. The resulting images display the enriched and deeply saturated colours of long exposure in low light conditions, and the potently ominous yet melancholy and muted grays of wet weather on the west coast. By fusing the everyday and the unpredictable in dark and cinematic landscapes, the photographer confronts the viewer with a world which is at once familiar yet strange, beautiful yet disturbing, and leaves the viewer somehow indecipherably uncomfortable.
The shifting ideological forces of power and industry and the relentless thrust of nature shape these seemingly banal landscapes and yet they are at once transcendent and bucolic. If people are present in the images, they are incidental, although evidence of their presence, both past and present is seldom completely absent.
Changes brought about through globalisation are not confined to newly emerging economies; they are continuously reshaping communities and landscapes throughout the world. Evidence of these changes taking place on Vancouver Island is observed in the images compiled in Remnants which were taken between 2006 and 2008.
duane@nomadicvisions.com
www.nomadicvisions.com
Large Format Landscape 13x11 inches (33x28 cm) 40 pages
Published: July 9, 2008
