Richard Page- Suburban Exposures

The work of Richard Page reminds me strongly of the work of Paul Winch-Furness as they both use tiltshift to portray places in a different light.
The work of photographer and artist Richard Page presents luminous images that collectively depict an unsettling and unsettled landscape. Employing shallow focus, the buildings and spaces he photographs appear reductive, where scale becomes deeply deceptive, and our scrutiny can become more intense. The images are taken in areas on the fringes of cities; anonymous places which reflect a new breed of generic architecture, familiar across cities throughout the UK.I find these images alot darker then those of Winch-Furness. Page’s subjects provoke a sense of unfamiliarity, yet the dramatic ambience of the imagery which is somewhat reminisant of Bmovies, a crime scene or something unusual – yet we cannot be sure of what that may be. This imbues the illuminated pictures with an underlying sense of anxiety, which mirrors the climate of fear from our media-driven culture.