MIKE HOBAN

Working in the dark of the theatre for 25 years, I grew accustomed to the technical challenges of working, on film, with little or no light. It seemed natural to carry this through into my personal work. I like dark images, I like dark imagery. I get satisfaction from being challenged in the analogue world, where there is no safety net of mass digital capture and post production. Working with such an unpredictable and unstable medium as expired Polaroid, the chance encounter is not only literal within the scene, but equally unpredictable in the outcome on film. It might work, it might not. It might get damaged in the process, it might not. Environmental artifacts, dust, sand, earth, rain, all of these things can become part of, and integral to, the final image....It is all about the magic of chance. The images can be both delicate but powerful, inviting but restrained, gentle but disturbing. Ultimately it is the viewer that decides.