David Stephenson

Marking Time
16 March to 8 April 2007
Gallery Carnegie

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Photography’s relationship to time is at the heart of its perceived truthfulness. Whether it purports to be a factual record or a fictional artifice, the photographic seems to encode time itself in a particular way. Light exists only in constant movement, within discrete temporal periods. Thus all photographic processes, which must use light as their agent, record a particular interval of time, always in the past, but represented in an eternal present, and evoking a funereal future.

David Stephenson’s recent large format colour photographs explore the passage of time in the Tasmanian environment. Representations of momentary or extended natural processes - including human actions such as forestry, mining, hydroelectric, and residential development – mark the environment as a site of flux, its equilibrium contested by various forces and competing value systems.