Andy Sewell
Known and Strange Things Pass, 2020
Printed to the photographer's specifications using Canson rag or Fuji Christal Archive (Matt or Gloss)
29.7 x 21 cms
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins
Special time-limited edition.
FPS15
'I’m very happy to be part of this sale in support of the Center for British Photography. A free to enter space, supporting the development of new projects and showing...
'I’m very happy to be part of this sale in support of the Center for British Photography. A free to enter space, supporting the development of new projects and showing diverse and important work made in Britain, feels very much needed in this challenging time. I believe the Center for British Photograph can be somewhere that helps us think and feel deeply the complex histories of this country and the huge challenges we face now and in the months and years to come.'
Andy Sewell about the opening of the Centre for British Photography.
The picture is from the series Known and Strange Things Pass.
The photographs in this work are taken on either side of the Atlantic in places where the Internet is concentrated. Where the fibres come together, and almost everything we do online passes down a few impossibly narrow tubes, stretching along the seabed, connecting one continent to another.
Looking at these vast unknowable entities – the ocean and the Internet – we sense their strangeness. We can understand each conceptually but can only ever see or bump into small bits of them. They challenge our everyday assumptions and show us that the boundaries we put between things are more permeable than we might like to think. That the objects surrounding us daily, appearing so reliable and mundane, are actually parts of much larger, more complex, bodies extended across space and time.
The work is structured through the push and pull of intermeshing sequences. Things, in different times and places, intertwine and coexist. As we look closer, worlds we think of as separate dissolve into each other – the near and the distant, the ocean and the internet, the physical and the virtual, what we think of as natural with the cultural and technological.
Andy Sewell about the opening of the Centre for British Photography.
The picture is from the series Known and Strange Things Pass.
The photographs in this work are taken on either side of the Atlantic in places where the Internet is concentrated. Where the fibres come together, and almost everything we do online passes down a few impossibly narrow tubes, stretching along the seabed, connecting one continent to another.
Looking at these vast unknowable entities – the ocean and the Internet – we sense their strangeness. We can understand each conceptually but can only ever see or bump into small bits of them. They challenge our everyday assumptions and show us that the boundaries we put between things are more permeable than we might like to think. That the objects surrounding us daily, appearing so reliable and mundane, are actually parts of much larger, more complex, bodies extended across space and time.
The work is structured through the push and pull of intermeshing sequences. Things, in different times and places, intertwine and coexist. As we look closer, worlds we think of as separate dissolve into each other – the near and the distant, the ocean and the internet, the physical and the virtual, what we think of as natural with the cultural and technological.