Darren Almond’s ‘Fullmoon @ Fukushima Bay’
Darren Almond
Fullmoon @ Fukushima Bay (2006)
Digital Photography
Almond’s practice spans installation, film, sculpture and photography, considering themes of memory, sense of place, and the passing of time. His ongoing ‘Full Moon’ series captures the unique light and atmosphere during full moon lunar phases.
This image appears to be shot in the daylight, however this image along with many of Almond’s images are taken at night. Almond’s shutter stays open for 15 minutes or more to create imagery like this.
Seeking out striking and often remote geographical landscapes, from the Arctic Circle to the Nile (this image taken in Fukushima, Japan) the artist generates images using an exposure time of 15 minutes or more, creating a ghostly, ethereal effect. Almond’s work is ‘intentionally concerned with memory and chance, with mobilizing light and time, and, in the choice of locations – zones outside the urban, untouched by artificial lighting – continuing the legacy of Romantic painting’.
Almond was born in Wigan in 1971 and lives and works in London. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2005 and has exhibited at Tate Britain and the Berlin, Moscow and Venice art biennales. His work is in the collections of Tate, MOMA, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. He is represented by White Cube.
The image above is an install shot from the exhibition.
Photographs on this page courtesy of Sam Parker, UoS Art Collection Team Assistant
