Michael Cripps
Michael Cripps’ take on the street photograph aims to explore the viewers’ interaction with the structure of the photograph, as well as photography’s intrinsic dialogue with cinema. His series, shot from an unconventional angle, allows the relation between each figure and its surroundings to become disrupted; the reader cannot assume or position said figures into an environment. The unique view of the street results in large areas of black and the ambiguous nature of night. This lack of depth leads to a questioning of the space, a two-dimensional field in which the characters never perhaps ‘belonged’, moving in and out of frame. The cinematic feel develops from the use of flash, combined with the angle it acts as a spotlight, as if these transitory figures are on the theatre stage.
