“The atmosphere is acting like a lens.� The Belgium photographer’s first UK exhibition, in which he explores the idea of of a deep, immeasurable space, is on show now at Belfast Exposed.
To create his expansive, understated work, Belgian photographer Geert Goiris journeys to far-flung locations � polar regions, deserts, mountain valleys.
There, with a large format camera fixed to a tripod, he brings into stark focus desolate landscapes littered with modernist ruins and futuristic objects.
The shots themselves are mundane yet spectacular, familiar yet unfamiliar, as if we�ve entered a not-too-distant future in which people have abandoned their homes because of some natural calamity.
Exploring these isolated locations is at the heart of what Goiris does. �I�m very much drawn to open spaces and sites that are hard to live in or colonize or hard for people to domesticate,� he says.
�I think these places, first of all, give us a strange mix of calmness and relaxation with anxiety and fear; they also show what existence is without human beings, when there is no infrastructure� it�s very much this detached, alien point of view as well.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.