Max Creasy

by chloewoodphotography

This week Max Creasy came to give a guest lecture at the university. He introduced the lecture by looking at the work of Roe Etheridge and Viviane Sassen, discussing ideas of the playing with different visual language and the use of light in photography.

Creasy’s photography is inspired by the work of Jeff Wall and the ideas of taking away truth and reality from photography and replacing it with constructs.He posed questions to us like “When you simulate an object, what does the real one represent?” and “If nothing matters, then how do we make sense of anything?”.

By simulating the illusion of light he plays with his understanding of pictures, representation and logic to question the relationship between a whole range of matter. Creasy also plays with the pairing of image and text as well as order to make you read the photographs differently. He used the automatically generated camera file number and matched it with the same sequence of digits from the filing system of a library. This correlation between subjective readings and numerical references, Creasy investigates how we order the different matter in our lives to produce meaning.