SAM SHMITH
Sam Shmith’s sublime and cinematic scenes are the result of arduously compositing thousands of digital images from his vast archives. Focusing on his photographic archives as raw ingredients, Shmith uses these images to “paint” large-scale landscapes that sit between the real and the surreal. The imposed luminosity and the rich colours of the work further bring on a prevailing sense of the artificial, the synthetic. Shmith creates these scenes with the intent that the viewer should have the knowledge that these places are constructed, whilst at the same time convinced of their authenticity. Many of his photographs are taken from behind the glass of moving vehicles creating a sense of cocoonment from our natural environment.
Sam Shmith has recently been shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (2011) with his work Untitled (In Spates 5).
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