Meet the artist

David Hiscock

David Hiscock has done more than any contemporary photographer to explore the medium’s potential for abstract, colour-field compositions.

Hiscock says, the ambitious claim that photography has an ‘intrinsic’ privileged relationship to reality and that it faithfully duplicates our vision is, at best, a simplification, and at worst, a fundamental distortion of the relationship between ourselves, our sight, and the world out there.

Hiscock’s works are a deliberate attempt to redress this ‘monocular split-second representational view.’ His images are made using purpose-built cameras, the film within is moving, scrolling steadily and very slowly past a thin slit aperture. Laying down a sliver of information sequentially which builds seamlessly with previous slivers over time and creates seismic-like registers on the film. These encodings are akin to electrocardiographic readouts, tremors are recorded, and interference patterns are created. The lens remains continually open during exposures of many minutes duration.

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