The Lloyd Gill Gallery: Ben Mecklenborgh

Ben Mecklenburgh

‘Pop’
“Sublime is taking pleasure in the meaningless and the fascinating”

The project ‘pop’ is looking heavily into the theory of the sublime and the ideal that even the most unsuspecting and banal forms of human presence can fill you with feelings and emotions that are unexplainable. Choosing balloons as my subject I took the deflated form of the balloon and cast it into the realm of the outside world and tried to take it among myself to photograph these subjects with a kind of beauty surrealism. This task was made harder as I choose to photograph them deflated. This was to me an obvious choice. The balloon deflated gives you feelings of sadness, whether it is from an end of a party or a Childs balloon has popped in the street or that it resembles something far more sinister but the result is always sadness. I have managed to succeed in creating beautiful pieces of work which are left to the viewer to decide what they are about as they will make that assumption based on what feelings they get back from the banal, sad but beautiful still life’s.

“Section 28”

While exploring the Lulworth gunnery ranges in Dorset my images are documents of a land under limited access by regulation of section 28 of the military byelaws. The objects in this restricted landscape are artefacts and traces of the military activity there and raise questions about their use and place in a landscape of treasured beauty. The absurd nature of these landscapes show the history of this restricted area of the Jurassic coast and one which is generally overlooked and blocked off to the general public. The banal objects themselves hold their own narrative and with this “late” photography the trace and history is what is experienced.

Title: 'pop'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

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Title: 'pop'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

Title: 'pop'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

itle: 'pop'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

Title: 'pop'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

Title: 'pop'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

Title: 'Section 28'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

itle: 'Section 28'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

Title: 'Section 28'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge

Title: 'Section 28'

Medium: 5x4 negative hand printed onto Fuji C-type paper

Dimensions: 16"x20" printed on 20"x24" paper and incased in beach wood hand made frames by Ben Meckleburgh

Year created: 2008

Price=£400

Price with packing materials, labour of packing and postage

Price=£440

Click Image to Enlarge