Still / Stuart Humphreys | Stuart Humphreys

  • Stuart Humphreys, Tomorrows years away
  • Stuart Humphreys, Amidst the warmth #2
  • Stuart Humphreys, What remains
  • Stuart Humphreys, Everyday
  • Stuart Humphreys, Drift
  • Stuart Humphreys, Feels Like Coming Home
  • Stuart Humphreys, For a moment
  • Stuart Humphreys, Her and Hymn
  • Stuart Humphreys, So quiet
  • Stuart Humphreys, Inside Out
  • Stuart Humphreys, Her Time
  • Stuart Humphreys, Just Far Enough
  • Stuart Humphreys, A Journey Begins
  • Stuart Humphreys, Less Became More
  • Stuart Humphreys, Way it Went
  • Stuart Humphreys, Melody #2
  • Stuart Humphreys, Worlds away
  • Stuart Humphreys, Ode
  • Stuart Humphreys, Music and Memory
  • Stuart Humphreys, Close now
  • Stuart Humphreys, Perfume
  • Stuart Humphreys, a thousand miles
  • Stuart Humphreys, That Time
  • Stuart Humphreys, Know it well
  • Stuart Humphreys, Room to Move
  • Stuart Humphreys, Listening to memories
  • Stuart Humphreys, Together Apart
  • Stuart Humphreys, What lies ahead
  • Stuart Humphreys, Times Past
  • Stuart Humphreys, Amber Veil
  • Stuart Humphreys, Afternoon on Sundays
  • Stuart Humphreys, Maybe Now, 2008
  • Stuart Humphreys, Amidst the Warmth #1

Still / Stuart Humphreys
09 - 28 October 2008

ARTIST STATEMENT

‘A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know’
Diane Arbus

The medium of photography is a wonderful tool for capturing a moment. These images are echoes of private moments conveyed using the moods and elements of landscape. I’m continually drawn to places with vast open spaces and sparse vegetation, places that give me access to thousands of miles of sky. The sky with its ever-changing light and transient moods balanced by the permanence of landscape. Fleeting versus fixed. The present versus the past.

I like to build my images by either emphasising or subduing certain aspects thus enabling the image a clearer voice – even if that voice is merely a whisper. What the camera actually sees is simply the starting point, what the mind sees is the more interesting journey.

Ultimately, what engages the viewer in my images will depend upon their experience, hopefully there is a hint of the contemplative, the still, the calm. As that is an important part of the process. Chaos versus calm.

Stuart Humphreys