John Kiely

Without Concept John Kiely

Influenced by viewing the work of Stephen Shore and Birdhead, and watching a video of an interview with Lee Friedlander, I decided the it was time to change my working practice. Rather than work to a pre contrived concept I decided that I would allow myself to simply react to the subject of trees. Using digital cameras with no tripod, editing each by using the same Photoshop action then getting all printed at a commercial Lab I compiled a series of over 200 images. These were exhibited and then edited into this book. The question is, has my working without a concept become a concept in its self? This book features over 90 pages of black and white images on the subject of trees produced for this project.