WANT

‘You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.’  Vernon Howard

Want is a project that shows a collective identity shaped by our roles as consumers, against a backdrop of environmental concerns. Consumerism and consumption are at fulfilment of many people but the problem is not the consumption itself but its behavioural pattern and the impact on the environment. The work reflects on the concern for the living planet and the guilty conscience of being lured into living a materialistic life. With these surreal sculptures the work tantalize the viewer’s perspective of denial and lack of control of the environmental impact.   from  petrascamera.blogspot.it

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Petra Stridfeldt is a UK based photographer who started her photographic career in Sweden. She studied BA Hons Degree in photography (achieved First-Class Honours) at Liverpool Moores University in UK. She is particularly interested in conceptual art photography and her work is often staged images and sculptures that touch upon humans’ denial of over-consumption and its effects on the environment. She shows her work often in a tragicomic way where the viewer is thrown between different feelings. Her work can often be described with words such as tranquillity, minimalism and space. When working on her projects she uses film, 6×6 or 5×4 and the work is never constructed in Photoshop. Her work has been exhibited in, Manchester, Stockport, Liverpool and London.            from .stridfeldt.co.uk

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