My recent series Going Away explores the coast as a ‘remembered place’, a place of escape and of imaginative departure from which we contemplate past time. This liminal landscape, where land meets sea, is rich in associations between what is fixed and boundless, stable and unstable, located and placeless. Going Away constructs a sense of memory and place that is remote and indistinct; it is a world of instability in which the materiality of things dissolves as if on the verge of forgetting. The faded look of the images alludes to the appearance of old photographs, which over time are bleached by too much light, dissolving away what is visible and reminding us that the medium of photography, celebrated for its ability to capture time, is itself impermanent.
Peter Bennett studied MA Photography at University of Brighton in 2010. Recent exhibitions include: 'Picturing Time' - Worshipful Company of Clockmaker’s Competition, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2011. 'Transience' - Galerie Huit, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival Arles, France, 2011.
Selected by Emma Morris, Photoworks
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