Peter Greendale | Found Light

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Peter Greendale, "Ft. Macleod 1," 2015

digital print. Courtesy of the Gallery.

Opening Reception 6:00-8:00 p.m.   Artists’ Talk starting at 6:30 p.m

The photographs in the series Found Light are the result of serendipitous strolls through the streets and back alleys of towns and cities throughout Alberta and B.C. While I search for interesting imagery it is not my intent to record or document any place, time or subject. Instead, I look for strong visual elements; colour, shapes, forms, textures etc., which become the raw materials for the construction of the image. I use the camera’s viewfinder as a framing device arranging those found basic elements into interesting and dynamic compositions. There are no real subjects in these photographs, that status is lost as the objects are only important for the visual fodder that they may provide. In many of these images one can see areas of blue sky, which would typically function as a background or negative space in which the subject is presented. In these photographs it functions as a coloured shape - a visual element like any other.