"Gina Parr, Coast - Photograph Limited Edition, 2012" by Gina Parr
In 2010/11 whilst travelling in France, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, painter Gina Parr started photographing marks on walls and surfaces as her way of “painting” with her camera whilst on the move. The photograph Coast was taken in Exmouth, Devon in 2012 and marks the start of a new photographic series, Horizon, which was taken, paradoxically, in the overpopulated and chaotic streets in Southern India. Photographed because of their inherent illusion of horizon and form, these chance marks and textures, some of which have been laid down by others with previous intent, become chimerical worlds and fictional places. She has also recently found a symbiosis between her photography and her painting, resulting in work that she hopes will provoke our capacity to imagine a space beyond our known territories.
