hi everybody.
artmeena is a photograhy project started by two friends old enough to know better. we shoot urban landscapes in and around the small, crappy, unartistic, farming town of ballymena in northern ireland.
influenced by ari verluis & ellie uyttenbroek, richard billingham, chuck close, and ed ruscha, art meena is an attempt at removing subjectivity from the actual act of photography itself.
the basic premis of meena is to photograph objectively all examples found of a given subject matter, and then impose a meaning on the completely unaltered photographs by selection and definition alone.
meena shoots objectively by shooting each example only once, having the camera set as mush as possible on auto (iso and f-stop can be manually adjusted for lighting conditions), and shooting each example "straight on" with no thought to artistry whatsoever. no post production, photoshopping or cropping of images is allowed.
i know it sounds like a lot of b******t, but we believe in it and believe in our work. we would love to have some dialogue with like (or unlike) minded photographers and any comments are more than welcome.
below are several images from our graffiti series.
peace
artmeena
artmeena is a photograhy project started by two friends old enough to know better. we shoot urban landscapes in and around the small, crappy, unartistic, farming town of ballymena in northern ireland.
influenced by ari verluis & ellie uyttenbroek, richard billingham, chuck close, and ed ruscha, art meena is an attempt at removing subjectivity from the actual act of photography itself.
the basic premis of meena is to photograph objectively all examples found of a given subject matter, and then impose a meaning on the completely unaltered photographs by selection and definition alone.
meena shoots objectively by shooting each example only once, having the camera set as mush as possible on auto (iso and f-stop can be manually adjusted for lighting conditions), and shooting each example "straight on" with no thought to artistry whatsoever. no post production, photoshopping or cropping of images is allowed.
i know it sounds like a lot of b******t, but we believe in it and believe in our work. we would love to have some dialogue with like (or unlike) minded photographers and any comments are more than welcome.
below are several images from our graffiti series.
peace
artmeena