James Dolan
'Over View' - 2005These photographs show details of an electronics module, discarded after the washing machine was repaired (for the third time).
They were taken with an electronic camera in natural light, stored on the camera's memory card and now being hosted electronically 24/7 on a web server and will travel over the internet to be displayed electronically on a computer. In a sense these photos have only ever existed in electronic form. Even the functioning of the eye is a chemical and electrical process.
There is a satisfyingly complex organisation layout within the circuit board. The proportions, colours typeographics, repetition and variety of objects is interesting. The metaphor with a city - full of that kind of inter-connectedness - is irresistible. A kind of clean, contemporary landscape of low-rise windowless blocks and machinery, factories, refineries, warehouses, hoardings and roads covered with markings indicative of pathways and routes. I was a big fan of the
New Topographic photography of Lewis Baltz. Like with 'Park City', on the surface everything appears perfectly ordered and fully functioning but - as with this unit which has failed and been discarded - the presence of imperfection is inescapable.
James is a photographer and digital film-maker based in Lincoln.
James Dolan
www.jamesdolan.co.uk
