The above two images are from my new series "Properly Photography", 2012 © Keshav Prasad. While starting to work on this series I wanted to work with a few restrictions. I believe its important to work within a boundary, and within that scope of reach try to push the potential of the work. This project in itself manifested from the idea of working within restrictions such as not having to take a new photograph, but to reuse photographs that has already been taken. And if possible not to use a camera anywhere in the process.
After my interim exhibition at college, I began to wonder on how much do I really need the photographs within a photographic project, I wanted to push the need for a photograph within a project as far as I could, yet establishing it within the realm of photography. So this stayed on the back of my mind, while I started working on this series. It focuses on creating a visual work using abstract photographic images without having to take a new photograph.
The work borrows ideas from fine art in a subtle way, the idea of aesthetic arrangement and some distant reference to cubism mixed with minimalism is inherent within this series.
In a way it is a reflective study of the medium(photography) itself, questioning what can be considered as proper photography, and tries to stretch the boundary of how photography can be defined. I feel its very important in attempting to redefine a medium, for the sole purpose of expanding its potential, and to push its artistic possibilities.
