Source: Graduate Photography Online - 2016 - University of Brighton

GRADUATE
PHOTOGRAPHY
ONLINE 2016

Richard Boll

Six Degrees of Freedom

'Six Degrees of Freedom' is a response to the seascapes of Turner, and to the challenges photography faces in expressively rendering the sea. The project involved making long exposures with a pinhole camera attached to navigation buoys in the Solent, a channel that flows around the town of my upbringing, and an area in which Turner painted. The project creates an interplay between control and chance, and the images are directly influenced by the six directions of movement that affect a buoyant object. The diffuse visual effects in the ten final images are part of the language of the sublime referred to by Immanuel Kant; that the sublime "is to be found in a formless object, represented by a boundlessness".

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‘Seascape I. Gurnard’ - Richard Boll - University of Brighton ‘Seascape II. Salt Mead’ - Richard Boll - University of Brighton ‘Seascape III. Bourne Gap’ - Richard Boll - University of Brighton ‘Seascape IV. Black Jack’ - Richard Boll - University of Brighton ‘Seascape V. Hook’ - Richard Boll - University of Brighton ‘Seascape X. Norris’ - Richard Boll - University of Brighton