Clearance, 2006

Ladder, 2006

Sarah & Arnold, 2006

Changing Room #1, 2006

Changing Room #2, 2006

Michael Bodiam

Website: http://www.michaelbodiam.com

Bio:
Michael Bodiam is a graduate in BA (hons) Fine Art Photography from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. He works on both commissioned and self-commissioned photographic projects. Michael's personal work has featured in publications such as Dazed & Confused, Marmalade and DayFour. He has exhibited with The Photodebut Group, at The Royal Academy (London), The Royal West of England Academy, HOST Gallery, The AMV Building and the Brick House at The Truman Brewery. In 2009 he achieved two merit awards & one distinction (2nd place overall) for the Fuji-Film Distinctions Awards as well as being long-listed for the last 60 of Hyères 2009. In 2004 he was a finalist in the Next Level Audi Vorsprung durch Technik Photography Competition.

Artist Statement:
Dickens & Jones: This work explores a building at the end of era. The series is a visual investigation of a space as it hangs tentatively in the balance between its functions old and new. Whilst the space may remain recognisable as a site of commerce, the building stripped to its barest bones, clings on to the last moments of its previous function. Despite the overwhelming emptiness of the building, the images are far from being a blank canvas. In fact, it is this distinct and unnerving absence of people and the products associated with the space that brings a new heightened relevance to the things that would have previously gone unnoticed. Our eye is instead drawn towards the subtle accumulative layering of traces left behind by many decades of human presence within the building's interior. Dirty silhouettes of clothing, products, fixings and furnishings become ghostly reminders of what used to be.