Gina Glover- Pathways to memory

In her search for meaning and the lost enchantment of childhood, Gina Glover embarks on a photographic quest and invites us to enter her special garden. Her garden becomes the safe playground for the interpretation of symbols and impressions which have haunted her all her life. With alot of references to childhood, memory and fairytales, Gina Glovers work really interests me. Often causing you to look deeper into the photograph to interperate the meaning these are more then straightforward landscapes. Her compositions are often very clever, and objects are stregically placed to be suggestive of whats happening. The contrasts in the use of shadows are also impressive and make a statement about the images. To achieve this she must of waited for just the right kind  of weather and time for the shadows to fall just how she wanted.  There is alot of symbolism and hints at different things with just the use of shadows and time of day. The idea that she encorperates memory into this makes it very much relevant to my work, as i myself are looking at places that seem to have a history and holding the memory's. Glovers work seem to have this great atmosphere about them, and she often uses pinhole (like kate mellor) and classic cameras, even camera obsurers. This is something myself i want to try and experiment with. Often her subject will contain sections of architecutre rather then a whole lot, sections of buildings, walls, or even just statues, and often uses the trees and bushes to suggest walls or being walled in like her photo of the maze.