Many photographers have focused on aspects of decay which otherwise may have remained unnoticed. Mood, colour, texture, detail and the effect of light have all been observed and recorded. Consider the work of others and respond in your own way to some aspects of decay.
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Tabitha Soren
from the series 'Uprooted'
“My work is about decay and the struggle against it. Each of my projects has to do, in one way or another, with the toll time can take on the home, the body, and the heart. I am interested in how human beings manage to find meaning in their lives despite this." |
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Yves Marchand and Romain MeffreImages from 'The Ruins of Detroit'
"Detroit, industrial capital of the XXth Century, played a fundamental role shaping the modern world. The logic that created the city also destroyed it. Nowadays, unlike anywhere else, the city’s ruins are not isolated details in the urban environment. They have become a natural component of the landscape. Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification. Its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire. This work is thus the result of a five-year collaboration started in 2005" |
Pieter Hugo
Images from the series 'Permanent Error'
"For the past year Hugo has been photographing the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. The area, on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie, is referred to by local inhabitants as Sodom and Gomorrah, a vivid acknowledgment of the profound inhumanity of the place. When Hugo asked the inhabitants what they called the pit where the burning takes place, they repeatedly responded: ‘For this place, we have no name’. Their response is a reminder of the alien circumstances that are imposed on marginal communities of the world by the West’s obsession with consumption and obsolesce. This wasteland, where people and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives, is far removed from the benefits accorded by the unrelenting advances of technology." |
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William Christenberry
Christenberry photographs the buildings of the Deep South and returns each year to particular locations to document or interpret the slow changes wrought by time, what might be called the process of decay. In these images decay is certainly not a negative process as time creates its own kind of beauty.
Check out this great interview with the artist: |
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky"Bits and pieces of urban detritus are transformed into a lyrical symphony of everyday forms in a video by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky.
"Incidents was filmed on windy streets near the artists’ studio in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, where the Kopystianskys have lived since 1988. Carefully edited from footage shot over a two-year period when the neighbourhood was still rundown, the video traces the almost balletic movements of discarded remnants from an urban consumer culture. Projected on a large scale, these seemingly random and insignificant materials are transformed, taking on a momentary sculptural or architectural quality before they move fleetingly out of the frame. Sound plays a key role in the work; original recordings of the cacophonous roar of the city further heighten our awareness of typically overlooked and incidental elements from the metropolitan stage." |
Currently on display at Tate Modern Level 5: Energy & Process Room 9
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