Daryl Phillip's "In A Land Where Time Stands Still" Art Exhibition at The Art Gallery of Bancroft

Opening reception: Friday, November 6 at 7:30pm
Exhibition available for viewing from November 3 to November 28

The natural world has always inspired Daryl, with its beauty, complexity and its life sustaining qualities—continuously exploring connections between nature and our lives as humans. While wandering through any given landscape, appreciating and discovering every aspect of creation, he is inspired primarily by the elemental and the sculptural aspects of nature. His photographs are an expression of the total visual and emotional experience.

Daryl sums up his continual struggle with photography as art stating, “Photography is one of the technical arts that has always fascinated me. The concept of a creative mind using a machine to construct images has been up for debate since the ‘camera obscura’ was first invented. For us photographers, the challenge is not to copy scenery but interpret elements of a scene and convey meaning and emotion to the viewer – interpretations achieved by the camera’s unique and inherent mechanical qualities.”

His artistic style has been (and continues to be) a journey of discovery and experimentation. As a young artist, Daryl was originally influenced by the Group f/64 (1930’s+) who promoted a style of sharply detailed, purist photography. Over the years he has built and operated pinhole cameras, experimented with photographic collage, almost became a B&W purist, still maintains a love/hate relationship with digital photography and most recently been drawn back to the analogue processes of the early years of photography (1840’s).

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