CHRISTOPHER WALTERS
Christopher Walters is a commercial photographer with origins in Fine Art Photo Media (BVA Sydney University). Chris' commercial work in Architectural representation and Fine Art Photography has led his professional and artistic career. In the past decade, Christopher's focus has been concentrated on his commercial work and developing his artistic direction with a move toward film direction.
H A L C Y O N
In Christopher's exhibition, Halcyon, he takes the empty landscape to new limits, pushing the boundaries of the idea of emptiness in both place as well as the photo medium. Pushing photography to its limits Christopher experiments between the border between nothingness and minute detail.
At first encounter the soft Minimalist compositions appear to be boundless but on closer inspection these horizontal vistas are underpinned by a strict geometry. They fly in the face of the Australian obsession with figures in the landscape. Although there is nothing that could be identified as figurative, the images themselves pulsate with human presence. Empty of all things human yet their glowing, tingling surfaces are unified by the horizontal.
These images also reflect Chris’s interest in the work of Mark Rothko and Nadav Kander and the music of Bon Iver. The culmination of four years work and research.
In Christopher's exhibition, Halcyon, he takes the empty landscape to new limits, pushing the boundaries of the idea of emptiness in both place as well as the photo medium. Pushing photography to its limits Christopher experiments between the border between nothingness and minute detail.
At first encounter the soft Minimalist compositions appear to be boundless but on closer inspection these horizontal vistas are underpinned by a strict geometry. They fly in the face of the Australian obsession with figures in the landscape. Although there is nothing that could be identified as figurative, the images themselves pulsate with human presence. Empty of all things human yet their glowing, tingling surfaces are unified by the horizontal.
These images also reflect Chris’s interest in the work of Mark Rothko and Nadav Kander and the music of Bon Iver. The culmination of four years work and research.
BLACK LINES 2017
Photography and architecture are brought together in Black Eye Gallery’s exhibition, Black Lines 2017. The group exhibition features a selection of Australia’s architectural image makers. Moving beyond the highly polished images of commercial architectural photography, Black Lines 2017 surveys a wide selection of photographs of the built environment. The exhibition turns a critical eye on places and buildings often considered banal.
The images takes the viewer on a journey in which the urban landscape becomes a geometric field of colour, lines and shapes to be played with, distorted, transformed, exaggerated or radically reduced using principles of design common to both the architect and photographer.
Photography and architecture are brought together in Black Eye Gallery’s exhibition, Black Lines 2017. The group exhibition features a selection of Australia’s architectural image makers. Moving beyond the highly polished images of commercial architectural photography, Black Lines 2017 surveys a wide selection of photographs of the built environment. The exhibition turns a critical eye on places and buildings often considered banal.
The images takes the viewer on a journey in which the urban landscape becomes a geometric field of colour, lines and shapes to be played with, distorted, transformed, exaggerated or radically reduced using principles of design common to both the architect and photographer.