BACKWATERS SLOW

Description

Backwaters of southern India, fishermen in their canoes journey down the tropical lush greens of the tranquil rivers of Kerala. Medium format film camera. Nadia builds her art work by mixing photographed detail; from the patina aged on stone, the rhythmic distortions on water, to the shadows drawn by trees. It is these fragments that help her tell the bigger story. Nadia uses several images, differing collected perspectives made on location which are then combined to convey a sense of place and time. Nadia applies layers and her sketch work to the original image in post production. Often the original photograph disappears from documentary single imagery toward a more painterly poetic interpreted view of the world. Using a two-dimensional static medium to record a 3 dimensional moving world has its limits she says. Sometimes a single image does it, it conveys the emotions I felt at that time, I can go back to that image and I know it is complete. Other times there are missing elements; the bitter cold, or the storm approaching, sense of transition, or the peripheral imagery which added to the main.