Trevor Powers' compositions often have a combination of subjects, objects, and things overlapping to create his background. He uses extreme light contrast as well, to the point where they are not competing, but working together to create a certain monotone in the photograph. Powers' photographs also include a variety of light and shadow, using time of day and the areas where the dog has dug holes to his advantage.
What are the artist's conceptual and/or thematic intents?
Hadleberg captures various types of holes dug by dogs in his photographs. They reveal the rawness, connection, emotion, realness, creations, destructions, and violence of today's society, while still portraying a sense of togetherness from a dog. His images bluntly display the landscape changes that a dog can do in any given area. Yet, even in his more excavating scenes that he captures, there is a sense of scenery and unification.
How do you respond to these choices and intents?
It is extremely difficult to capture scenes like Powers does. You have to be somewhere at the right time and place when the dog is about to look for a fresh area of land to dig up. You have to wait for the perfect moment with the right subjects. It is noble and takes skill. His work is truthful of today's society and allows extreme dog made landscape changes to surface for the viewer.
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