- Luke Harby
- 1972: 0
- 1973: 1
- 1991: Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. BA Hons Fine Art
- 2015: Artistic practice begins in earnest
- Lives and works in Northampton, UK
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- Photo © Jessica Harby
- Luke Harby is an artist who works solely with photographic film.
- His work attempts to explore the nature of photography itself. It engages with the act of photographic production and reproduction; the fact (or fiction) that photography is merely representation; and that all photographic images are illusory.
- Given this dogma he enjoys the act of manipulating the subject, using tricks of scale, displacing or adjusting the context, or by vandalising the image in some way in order to rephotograph it.
- "Contrary to a widely and firmly held belief, it does not really matter whether the initial image is easy (or something taken to be easy - a genre scene in the style of Vermeer, for example, or a colour photograph of an Austrian castle) or difficult (a Jackson Pollock, a Pissarro, or the poor paradox of a blank puzzle). It's not the subject of the picture, or the painters technique which makes a puzzle more or less difficult, but the greater or lesser subtlety of the way it has been cut."
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