Zac T Lee
Untitled (Plants)
The central focus of my practice centers on abandonment and isolation, from youth to empty and derelict spaces. The aim within my work is to look at spaces and objects differently, removing from their context and translating them to a wider contextual understanding. My photographic study of plants in Chinese takeaways aims to produce a similar effect with the plant/subject taking precedence over the space and allowing for the mundane and the individual to be questioned and highlighted through the main focus of the plant. The plant project came to be representational of portraiture rather than my previous work of architectural spaces. Through this study I was able to introduce the concept of 'the overlooked', taking a mundane and universal environment, such as the takeaway shop which can be found all over the world, and focusing on the overlooked items within the space, so that the unnoticed becomes the subject. The employment of abandonment, melancholy and isolation is ever present.
Matthew Humphreys • Zac T Lee • Kyu Park • Caroline Peña Bray • Helen Saunders •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Fine Art
London College of Communication
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
University of Wales, Newport
MA/MFA Documentary Photography
University of Sunderland
MA Photography
University of Ulster
MFA Photography