David Spero

by chloewoodphotography

This week we had photographer David Spero in university to give us a lecture about his work.

Settlements – 2004- 2010:

This project is a record of self built low impact structures in ecological communities in the UK. The work started as a series of topographic views of the dwellings in their environments but as his project progressed it also became about the people who lived there and chose that way of life, he then started to take portraits and interior images.

Spero became interesting in the complicated rules and regulations that these people had to abide and looked into different planning permission policies and the ideas of low impact and sustainable living.

 

Ball Photographs – 2001- Present Day:

This project began with him photographing the night sky, a grand image of the heavens and earth together. Spero collects bouncy balls and after looking at the constellations he decided to playfully arrange these different sized and colour balls in his home in different formations to photograph.

Spero is drawn the temporary places and this is where he chooses to create his instillations. This project went through lots of development, changing plans and playing with perspective, he experimented with using mirrors to emphasise these strange ideas of perspective.