Berlin Gallery: Edmund Clark

Edmund Clark's work was shown at the Berlin Gallery and was the most powerful work that I had some across when visiting Berlin. His Photography was of Guantanamo Bay and photographed the different areas. His work was set out so that there was a contrast between each photograph, highlighting how different the surroundings seemed to be but on purpose. The photographs from the cells to the homes that the American army base lived at were very different.

What I liked about the work was how shallow yet deep the photographs seemed. They were very bleak due to the subject but was it also because I was aware of what I was looking at it was bleak, that is was of Guantanamo Bay. The items he photographed are something that I could see everyday but because of their location it changes their meaning somehow. There was something about his work I can not quite figure out but it seemed to move me still. The images were very powerful.

The colours in his work are very stale in their lighting which visually I think is quite nice.


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