No. 33 ‘Rookery 2’ (2009)
Scenes of abstracted landscapes that push the boundaries of what it means to take a photograph.
Charles March
London, England, 1955
Lives and works in London, England
Charles March is a high production still life and special effects and landscape photographer. His ongoing experimentation with traditional digital photographic production has led to his way with the camera being likened to that of a paintbrush. March’s more recent works contort the captured images into impressionistic malaises; scenes of abstracted landscapes that push the boundaries of what it means to take a photograph.
In No. 33 ‘Rookery 2’ (2009), the spectre of a tree in the winter spirals up towards the centre of the composition as birds flee its spindling grasp. The movement that March captures in his experimentation with the shutter speed echoes the rapid, flailing ascension of the rooks, emulating for his viewers an almost drunken lag.