Sydney-based photographer, Daniel Shipp, features on our cover this month with a work from his latest body of work ‘Botanical Inquiry’. This suite of images are comprised of “elaborate photographic dioramas constructed in the studio in which nature, geography and physics are shuffled to present familiar but fictional environments”, explains Shipp.
Drawing on his interest in traditional cinematic techniques, Shipp’s photographs are driven by visual illusions created by manipulating camera optics rather than by computer. This aesthetic is linked to the conceptual premise of the series, which questions how the natural-world survives or adapts to man’s unstoppable advances.
Saint Cloche
22 April to 3 May
Sydney
Botanical Inquiry – Arterial Road Duct, 2014, archival Inkjet photograph, 79 x 96.5cm. Ed of 7
Courtesy the artist
