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Featured photographer
Jo Longhurst
I am interested in Perfection: how it shapes our personal identities, and our
social and political systems; and how an idea of perfection informs the history
and practice of photography.
For several years I’ve been working with top breeders, photographing their
dogs by bloodline, exploring their obsessive quest for the ‘perfect dog’.
As part of my working process I use a variety of photographic technologies that
have been used to record and control human portraits, including state-of-the-art
technologies and those already considered obsolete such as stereoscopic cameras.
Underpinning the work is an exploration of the effect of looking and being seen.
My study of the Whippet foregrounds the intimate relationship between human and
animal, and the increasing significance of photographic technologies in the development
of human identity. Although I photograph dogs, the questions I ask are always
specific to the question of what it is to be human.
Related Link: www.jolonghurst.comm
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| Twelve dogs, twelve bitches, 2003 (detail) |
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