Christopher Young

I've got a show opening on July 9 at the Perth Centre for Photography in... Perth, Australia. An exhibition preview is up on my website and, for those perverse souls who want to track it's evolution, I've tagged my blog so all relevant posts are together.

As a bit of a followup to How to look at art...



That which is imaged exists on more than one plane.



To fully appreciate what you are looking at, you need to be aware that there are multiple threads to that which you are consuming.



First off, the image itself is on a surface(s) and that surface is an object in itself. It is a tactile thing that you can… Continue

I'm a firm believer that tools a means to an end just as a collection of sounds that 'might' form words are only elements in a sentence.



I've been asked twice in the last few days something to the effect of if money were no object, what would you use as 'gear' for making images. Similarily, I was asked my opinion on this camera vs that.



I - of course - have tools that I'm comfortable with but don't see them as particularly relevant to process. Whether… Continue

This has been floating around my head for such a long time that it needs to be written.



It is an intensely frustrating process for someone like myself to engage with the art gallery community. This feeling of helplessness as to what/who/where/when/how is enough to make me scream. The introversion doesn't help either... if I was bombastic I might be able to bluff my way in or at least establish relationships that form cornerstones for something else but as it is,… Continue

The FotoFreo Photography Festival ran in Perth, Western Australia April/May 2008.



There were 80+ photography exhibitions on including such luminaries as Roger Ballen, Brook Andrew, Marian Drew, Christophe Bourguedieu, Denis Darzacq, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Edward Burtynsky and Paolo Pellegrin.



Here some of my thoughts on the… Continue