Carter is an English photographer and artist whose work is centered around the concept of painting with light. He often creates very graphic imagery, yet through photographic means. He achieves his images using a special camera which has a swing lens – normally used to create a panorama. By swinging this lens across the image while simultaneously swinging the camera in the opposite direction streaks can be made to appear in the image, and details stretched. His images show how the camera can be used, quite simply, to distort our world rather than recreate it realistically. This also shows the failure of the camera as an instrument of objectivity – these images all fail to reproduce what our eyes see.
Each image is a one off produced on 120 film with a widelux camera, rather than digital image manipulation, this adds value to the image both conceptually and in monetry value – they are not easy to produce and there is an element of chance and certainly failure. The images are a direct record of the technology (the camera) and the user (the photographer) interacting to record the subject and thus are a trace of the movement of both during the duration of the exposure.
