Nathan Bomford
Stories of the Commonplace
January 6 - February 3, 2007

Image: Nathan Bomford


Nathan Bomford ’s work explores photographic theatricality of absence, vernacular and potential. The images in this series are of specific, yet commonly anonymous places that provide the settings for stories. The notion of absence portrayed in these images is about stillness and waiting for action. Bomford ’s work is not simply apocalyptic or striving for utopia rather Bomford suggests a shift or change waiting to occur with an emphasis is on potential kinetic energy. The images that Bomford produces embrace light, whether the light in the photographs is naturally occurring, artificial, theatrical or cinematic. Nathan Bomford is an artist whose work with the everyday becomes rendered into the picturesque.

Nathan Bomford completed a Diploma in Visual Arts at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia in 2001 before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in photography at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2003.He has recently completed a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. Recent exhibitions include Fabrications at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, A Short Stranger Will Soon Enter Your Life at The Cryingroom Gallery, Institutionalized at the Rogue and False Start at AEDC project space in Berlin, Germany and Stories of the Common Place in the Concourse Gallery UVIC. Currently, he lives and works in Victoria.

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