TOTEMS

An exhibition by Harry Carter

Artist Harry Carter presented Totems on the 4th of May 2024, inviting us to conduct a deeper investigation into the relationship between images and text, focusing on the language of photography and its intersection with written word.

Totems presented four large mixed media pieces combining collages of black and white snapshot photography, painting and written poetry. Each piece playing with the interplay between text and image all lying at different points between the two mediums.

From our time talking with Harry he expressed a frustration with photography as a medium by itself, this state of ennui led him to filter his writing back into his photographic work and exploring the space where those two worlds collided.

A recent graduate from Falmouth University, Harry shows no sign of slowing down his artistic practice, Totems came alongside his latest photobook Unface (Silver+) a compilation of work up until now, exploring the morality of photography.