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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

ICM

ICM gathers photographs made through intentional camera movement, long exposure, walking, reflected light and shifting perception.

  • Abstract colour photograph with a vast mauve-grey overcast sky above blurred pale building forms. A deep lamp-black foreground fills the lower half, holding a faint orange glow that becomes stronger near the bottom edge.
    Overcast (Lamp Black)

  • A black and white abstract urban landscape using intentional camera movement, with blurred building walls flanking a pale central channel, and white light trails surging from left to right before thinning to a single winding ribbon.
    Ribbon race, down deep walled arroyo

  • Vertical abstract colour photograph of two dark clusters of spiky foliage leaning together beneath a blue-grey sky. Intentional camera movement stretches the leaves into radiating strokes, with pale pink and green traces near the lower centre.
    A Meeting of Minds
  • Abstract colour street photograph of a person seen from behind in green clothing with a large red backpack, standing or walking through a blurred pale city street. Buildings, traffic and other pedestrians dissolve into soft motion on either side.
    Walk Away (Green & Red)
  • Black-and-white blurred street scene with a tall tower block in the centre background, dark buildings on both sides, shadowy figures in the middle distance and a pale strip of pavement leading towards them.
    Tower Block (Charcoal Grey)

  • Red and white light trails surge across a dark urban landscape beneath a pale dusk sky.
    Runaway Night

Galleries

Black-and-white abstract urban landscape with a blurred treeline above, a heavy dark mass at right, and a band of looping white light trails streaming across the middle ground.

Sun Glints

Abstract colour street photograph with a vivid chrome-yellow band sweeping from the foreground towards the centre. Blurred road lines, repeated fragments of “NOT IN SERVICE”, dark buildings and a yellow-orange façade stretch through the city scene.

The Painted City

Blurred image of a large green tree against a pale blue sky, with golden light around either side, looping yellow light traces near the middle, and a dark green-black foreground below.

Atmospherics & Impressions

Abstract blurred photograph of orange and yellow flowers against dark green foliage, with pale blue and pink areas near the top and radiating motion softening the blooms into glowing colour.

The Flower Garden

An abstract photograph with a large pale blue and lavender wave-like form sweeping across the frame, bordered by bright fractured light trails and softer mauve and violet tones.

Compression Landscapes

Blurred black-and-white scene with dark palm-like trees at right, pale misty light at left, and scattered bright specks across a dark foreground.

These Dark Days

Vertical black-and-white photograph centred on a large tree trunk, boughs and canopy. Circular camera movement transforms background light into repeated pale loops and rounded forms surrounding the broad, dark central structure.

Intentional Movement