Nostalgia held in our Possessions
My project was about exploring and then documenting different areas of nostalgic feelings caused by inanimate objects, ending in three main portrait photographs showing childhood, souvenirs and family heirlooms/hand-me-downs.
I’m often inspired by artists that use human emotion and experience as the basis for their work, and wanted to try that myself in this project.
Nostalgia and people’s perception and relationship to the past has always interested me. I wanted to explore the psychology of it and learn about real-life examples from people that I could connect with and photograph for my work.
FMP completed at Kendal College Arts & Media. Winner of Romney Art Prize 2019; Exhibited in The Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal.
https://lakelandarts.org.uk/oliver-clarke-romney-art-prize-winner-young-photographers-work-on-show-at-abbot-hall/