This work formed the basis of an exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery in Brighton 1994.

These images are representational in the sense of the traditional photograph, in that they are ' a window on the world' - they are taken direct from object to film, film to paper. There is no manipulation. They pay homage to Cartier Bresson's Decisive Moment. Where photographer, camera and moment collide to create the image. Ultimately the representational image here is abstract. They share common ground with artists, painters who work with the problem of canvass and making the mark.

This project was completed within a 250 yard radius of the house I lived in at the time and follows central themes in my work of making the local and often considered banal the place of works. I had come to the conclusion that traditional photographic landscape had lost all credibility in creating nostalgic and romantic notions of representation. Within this work I am trying to create a more contemporary definition.

INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES - A PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath
02 April - 25 May 2002

Peter Day's exhibition, Invisible Boundaries, is an innovative fusion of photo documentary and archaeology. This intensive and often, extremely personal archive of Day's life, records and catalogues the objects and artifacts of his home, as well as the ephemeral imprints of time and people passing through it. It has been dubbed 'anti-photography' or 'total photography', constantly revisiting the same places over and over again.

Day has taken more than 1,000 images over three years, exploring the limits of what the photograph, as an image, can tell us about ourselves. Stemming from his interest in 'visible histories', the work raises issues about our daily lives - what we keep and store, what we record and why. Each film revisits the narrative of Day's personal environment, creating a series of self-portrait images in his attempt to, '…make the invisible visible and the banal, a historical artifacts. The images will be displayed as a vast series of digital prints, forming an anthropological picture archive.

Day, born 1964, lectures in photography and lens media arts at Exeter College. Invisible Boundaries forms part of his research study at Derby University into photographic practice.

The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University College, Newton Park Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN

In these images the landscape we are familiar with is out of focus and the interaction and journey of the human within the landscape is shown by the residue of these common artifacts ( see other works ). These images were taken in the Summer of 2003 on the beaches near Beer and Seaton They formed part of a larger exhibition of works by Judy Hempstead, Andrew Stevens and Bob Deveraux titled Seeing, Sensing and Listening. For further information e-mail thelmahulbert@eastdevon.gov.uk

Part of the exhibition involved projection of abstracts alongside sound and canvasses of paintings. The abstracts use the camera to simplify a landscape down to a few elements of pattern and structure digitally projected into the gallery space.

www.bbc.co.uk/devon/culture/2005/05_may/peter_day_insight.shtml

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Day has taken more than 1,000 images over three years, exploring the limits of what the photograph, as an image, can tell us about ourselves. Stemming from his interest in 'visible histories', the work raises issues about our daily lives - what we keep and store, what we record and why. Each film revisits the narrative of Day's personal environment, creating a series of self-portrait images in his attempt to, '…make the invisible visible and the banal, a historical artefact. The images will be displayed as a vast series of digital prints, forming an anthropological picture archive.