TOM OLIVER.

Tom Oliver’s work consists of a series of 35mm photographs which I took during the first lockdown. His partner bought him a 35mm camera which we then used to document various moments during lockdown but when Oliver received the film back almost every photograph (except one... and a half) were obscured by light leaks.⁠⁠
The title riffs off of the misconception in early photography that the camera produces accurate and objective representations of reality. If you accept this to be true then you could consider that the obscured, abstract images produced by this roll of film are actually a more accurate representation of my state of being, compared to 'successful' photographic documentation of those moments. For some time my work has been interested in the idea of the threshold. In the last year much of his work has considered the window as a manifestation of this interest and so he found the opportunity to show the work in this context very exciting.