James K Lowe American Night

There’s a relationship with the in between- the setting and situation is all in the midst of the greater picture. A snippet of what is to come, and what happened before you arrived. The in-between is the promise of something better, or dread of something worse. It is a dark truth, and an unforgiving happiness. It is the situation where you find yourself acting for the future, even if it hurts you now.

James K. Lowe, who has just represented New Zealand in the collective photography biennale PhotoQuai 2011, Paris, has a personal artistic practice inspired by a documentary style coupled with dreamlike visions of filmmakers such as David Lynch.

He successfully establishes the mood by suggesting narrative elements and actions to his characters, creating images of interaction, parting, transitions, at times fraught with psychological unease.

Preferring to work at night with bulb lighting that he projects, like an artist throwing paint, to selectively illuminate aspects of the scene and reveal his protagonists.

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