Tim Banks

timbanksphotography@yahoo.co.uk

www.timbanksphotography.co.uk

Tim practices is fluid within the photographic medium and is lead by many influences. The majority of which are underpinned by interests in social and landscape identity. Wither it is landscape or portrait based Tim tries to push the documentary base of my images to encompass new conceptual and aesthetic aspirations suitable to my subjects.

The series Human Bodies, is a set of photographic portraits that combine reverse nudes and layers of human cells.

The portraits explore notions and perception of human identity, by breaking the conventions of photographic portraiture and offering up alternatives visions of the human self. It is not the conventional notion of individual identity that is generally associated with portraiture but a vision that suggests a collective human identity as organisms made up of flesh and blood. They combine desexualised and (what could be termed) ‘non-portraits’ in an abstracted vision of the body. The images reference and manipulate the photographic relationship to science, by merging and distortion of these combined elements.

Identity and new ways of considering our self image and knowledge of our own identity sit at the base of this project.

Education:

2009 BA(hons) Documentary Photography, University of Wales Newport

2006 Foundation Diploma, Lens Media, with Distinction, Exeter Collage

Group Exhibitions:

2009 Wake, University of Wales Newport Graduate Show, Candid Arts, London.

Images also soon to me shown at in Bristol Diving school Arts space.