Reframing Detritus

Saturday 11 June

 

14:00–14:30
Aberdeen Art Gallery – Cowdray Hall
Schoolhill, Aberdeen, AB10 1JQ
Free entry

 

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Reframing Detritus: An Account of Franck Allais’ Photography of Everyday Objects Discarded on the Streets
Presentation by Adrian Burnham (UK)

 

What happens when a professional product and interiors photographer trains their lens on all manner of stuff we abandon in the urban environment? How does a propensity to picture items approaching the end of the consumer cycle reflect on the image maker, the objects represented, as well as individual and wider societies’ attitudes to various items abandoned on our streets?