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Christopher Young
34, Male
Perth, Australia - Share
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Christopher Young's Groups
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1708 Gallery
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documenta
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Biennale of Sydney 2008
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Kosuth's Chairs
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Christopher Young's reviews
stains - an essay by david bromfield
Started 5 Aug
whispers - an essay by paola anselmi
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Last reply by Katy 8 Nov.
Christopher Young
Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.zebra-factory.com
- Relationship status
- married
- College / University
- Diploma in Applied Arts, 1992-94
- Program
- Visual Communications (Major: Photography)
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Digital, Photography
- I am...
- a fine art photographer who has been based in Perth, Western Australia since 2002. Born in New Zealand and lived in Köln, Germany for close to 6 years.
- About my artwork
- Images are, for me, inherently loaded with stories. When I see a broken door or a crumpled piece of paper I interpret these further than simple objective observation. 'Why' and 'how' are impossible to ignore. Using very limited information and my emotional response I 'fill' in the gaps and create myths.
I am interested in what or who is not there, what I can't quite see and the helplessness of not being able to 'ground' an image in a time line.
If something moves the viewer or I is it something more than social conditioning? Is there an innate aspect involved? Is there a transference that occurs when darkness and danger are implied?
What preconceptions do the viewer and I bring to the experience? How does scarcity, complexity and proximity in both content and composition inform this process?
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- Artists I like
- Andreas Serrano, Gilles Peress, Erwin Olaf, Jeff Wall, Gregory Crewdson, Stephen Shore, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Sebastio Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark, Carravaggio, Bill Viola
- The centre of the artworld is
- nowhere and everywhere
Christopher Young's Blog
Gallery Protocol
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, politene… Continue
Posted on 30th July 2008 at 7:11am — 7 Comments
FotoFreo 2008 - Photography Festival (Perth, Western Australia)
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 festival/conference. See also:… Continue
Posted on 8th April 2008 at 4:00am — 1 Comment
Two weeks to go...
drei and The Strange Quiet of Things Misplaced (Elisa Markes-Young) are both opening on April 18 at Breadbox. I finally (!) picked up the last of my prints this week. All up about a month behind schedule - which has been keeping me awake. That said, it seems to have 'clicked' (excuse the pun) when it needed to do so - a relief beyond words. I'll pick up the books we're producing on Monday or Tuesday so all that's left to do… Continue
Posted on 5th April 2008 at 3:19am —
Janet Laurence @ Galerie Düsseldorf (Perth, Australia)
... It's a quite engaging show that could quite easily have been laboured by a focus on technique, tricks and the how-did-she-do-that quagmire of optical illusionism... Read more...
Posted on 21st March 2008 at 2:00am —
The Age Old Medium Debate
In one of the groups the question was posed as whether Photography is or isn't an 'art'. My response below: I personally think that a medium is a means to an end. Too often people fall into the trap that just because a painting is done in oil or something is 'handcrafted' it's - by default - 'art'... a ridiculous notion when you think about it. Is a Caravaggio a lesser work because he - as others - might have used Camera Obscura? By many definitions they 'cheated' and thus didn't make 'art'...… Continue
Posted on 1st March 2008 at 8:19am — 3 Comments
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love paula
*** greetings***
Your work is very geometric and has a subliminal relationship with itself.
Very professional work. I was especially drawn to your portraits and the pictures dealing with decay or the aftermath of some destructive force, like fire (I love "What I Am #30").
Best regards
Manfred
All the best,
Zazah
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