The Remote Viewer is coming...

Boynton Street has disappeared (Projection 2) 1906-2018

Unhealthy Area, Quarry Hill 1905-2018

These are deconstructed rephotographs of Quarry Hill in Leeds. The work attempts to take archive photographs of the cleared slums back to those streets that have disappeared, as part of an ongoing exploration of photography as a form of haunting.

This work is part of my practice-led PhD research which is nearing completion.

The final rephotographs will be projected on Light Night this year as part of a video installation called The Remote Viewer

Here's a sneak preview of the sort of thing we'll be doing...

Slum Clearance (2017) from Michael C Coldwell on Vimeo.

CC - AM from Michael C Coldwell on Vimeo.

The Light Web

Denial of Service, 2016, Michael C Coldwell

What does the internet look like? It pervades all modern life, yet most of us are in the dark about how it works. In media theory it is seen as Baudrillard's great simulation, a comlete virtual world for us to explore and inhabit, a completely immaterial space. But this view of the web belies the fact that this apparently immaterial world is totally dependent on an incredibly complex material infrastructure - one that is often surprsingly old-fashioned when examined closely.

These are photographs of that physical 'web' that we routinely ignore.