ADAM HOGARTH

Through collecting and re-appropriating the throwaway family snapshot, Adam Hogarth has developed an increasing body of work investigating its critical position within contemporary society. Examining its impermanent nature, Hogarth sees the photographic object as a quasi-nostalgic, contradictory object that is dying, becoming obsolete in a digital age.

Adam Hogarth thinks an important thing to consider when taking and looking at a photograph is an inherent searching to immortalise a moment in time. However, despite this he also sees this as a futile activity as photographs have an ever prevalent auto-destruction in built within them. Emulsion fades, colour becomes dulled by ultra violet light and the image is ultimately a victim of its own demise. Even the vast sea of images that are now displayed on-line through social network sites ceases to exist at a single ‘click’ of a button. The duality of this destruction and immortality contained within the photograph is affirmed in the work using a variety of mediums including video, print, drawing and sculpture.