Delta Coal Port, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2009-10
Burj Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2009-10
Beijing International Airport, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2009-10
‘Anthropocene’ suggest something of the complex structures that make up the centres of global capitalism in transforming aerial views of key sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture and excess. Questions of photographic and economic realities are further complicated through the formal use of patterns that potentially have their origins in ancient civilizations. This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the order of things and the potential for photography to question and disrupt this.
Biography:
David Thomas Smith is a Newport based, Irish photographer who is currently studying at the University of Wales, Newport, BA Documentary Photography.
Forthcoming projects for 2010 include an artist run exhibition entitled ‘twenty seven’ which is set to run in the summer of 2010. Smith hopes to continue developing his photographic practice and pushing the boundaries of his medium. He is currently working on two new projects.
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