Years of
appropriation and experimentation go into the works of artist and photographer
Paul Thulin. Thulin is an analog photographer that experiments with aged film,
burning effects and chemical reactions. He believes that every scratch on the
frame tells a story and that the story is a different one from what you’ve
heard. His technique involves using
alternative materials in order to achieve grotesquely aged and grunged
photographs. He uses this technique in order to transform ordinary scenes of
such topics as family into a much more macabre version.
Thulin
dirties up everything we ever knew about identity and history. He also chooses
known and fairly political messages such as consumerism and cultural identity
but prefers to depict them in a rather obscure light. He scratches the surface
of everyday life until we are left with a completely raw but ironically
un-muddied image of the message Thulin wishes to convey.
In this
sense, I believe that Thulin is admirable for creating his own world in a
sense. He truly makes his images by choosing to instead of using completely
digital methods which would be admittedly easier, he sticks to traditional,
physical production and therefore, creates an even more personal feel through
the time he spends on each image. In this sense, I want to be able to focus on
my images as thoroughly as he does and therefore convey an even more personal
feel with them.
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