One Man’s Trash. Another Man’s Treasure

An Exhibition of photographice works by Viv Rickman-Poole at Moray Art Center

24th Nov to 26th January 2013

Originally a painter Viv’s work has been centered around photography for many years. She experiments with a combination of homemade, vintage, toy and digital cameras, exploring their creative possibilites, often modifying their parts and adjusting their inner workings. Sometimes adapting the anologue and digital world to work simultaneously.

The photographs I take are snatched glaces into the mundane, snippets of everyday life that form my visual references. I take delight in the way my images can wrap me up in the warm nostalgia of the past, absorb me in the atmosphere, movement and sounds of the present and yet leave me emotionally desolate, wondering about the future…