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Guy Frederick
Christchurch photographer Guy Frederick has combined his academic training as a scientist with his professional experience as a photographer to reveal a vision of New Zealand poised between social memory and the natural environment. A Bachelor of Science (Hons) in geography finds its translation in his photographic work through this ongoing attention to concepts of people and place. The resulting images, as seen in this exhibition, are situated on the edges of history – the abandoned buildings, the ordered environments, the social meeting places, the designated spaces diligently readied for social observance, recreation or interaction. In these works the complexity of this world is stripped back to reveal a raw simplicity, bathed in natural light, standing on the periphery of the more hurried steps of urbanity.
As a professional photographer Guy has undertaken a number of artistic, editorial and commercial commissions, including a working trip to the sub-Antarctic Islands in 2004. In 2006 he won the Travcom Cathay Pacific Travel Award for the best series of travel images for his work documenting ice skating at Canterbury’s Lake Ida.
“What I love most about photography is the simple joy of working with light. When I was a kid growing up on a farm it was the winter light which caught my eye – the way in which it interacted with frosted paddocks, bouncing off wire fences. This powerful combination of light and space is still what drives me now as a photographer. It is the intricate relationship between people and their environment, and how each influences the other, which both fascinates and drives me” – Guy Frederick, 2008.
Gallery:
Peter Adsett
Mark Braunias
Marcus Capes
Peter Carson
Stephen Clarke
Allen Cox
Michael Dell
Andrew Drummond
Guy Frederick
Michael Hamblett
Jeffrey Harris
Roger Hickin
Maree Horner
Kathryn Madill
Michael Reed
Zina Swanson
Philip Trusttum
