Chris Welsby

Chris Welsby was born in England in 1948. He is an experimental photographer and filmmaker; making work since 1969. His work primarily focuses on the relationship between the moving image and nature. He has created special cameras for his various projects. One of his most notable creations was in "Anemometer", where he made a camera motor that was driven by the wind so when the wind blew fast the film went fast as well.

"In my single screen films and single channel videos the mechanics of film and video interact with the landscape in such a way that elemental processes—such as changes in light, the rise and fall of the tide or changes in wind direction—are given the space and time to participate in the process of representation" (sfu.ca).

This is what I have been thinking about a lot as I contemplate my own project. I've been thinking about my interactions with nature and taking a documentary style approach to my work. I like the fact that Welsby creates cameras that work with nature so it's like nature is doing the work for him. 

"The process of re-presenting the landscape in either the single screen works or the installations is not seen to be separate from nature or in any way objective, but is viewed instead, as part of a more symbiotic model in which technology and nature are both viewed as inter-related parts of a larger gestalt" (sfu.ca).


This is another aspect I have been considering when I think about my project. I've been thinking about incorporating sound/video into my work as well as photography. In the end, I would hope that everything would come together as one interconnected whole.
Samadhi-It has been described as a non-dualistic state of consciousness in which the consciousness of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object (wikipedia.org).

Chris Welsby interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnGrOmIIBrI
http://www.sfu.ca/~welsby/Tree_S_L.jpg
http://www.sfu.ca/~welsby/At_Sea_L.jpg
http://www.sfu.ca/~welsby/SeaPic-L.jpg
http://www.sfu.ca/~welsby/Stream1L.jpg

Moving Images Distribution
http://www.sfu.ca/~welsby/Intro.htm