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LIFE INTERRUPTUS - Rarely is it “just-calling-to-say-hello”.
© Copyright and Photographed by Martin Billings – September 2011
Since the beginning of time until the moment Graham Alexander Bell’s invention became available it was necessary to be within earshot of somebody to conduct a conversation. The telephone changed all that, although the former is still regarded the better option. The change to society’s lifestyle, business opportunities and behaviour kept pace with the growing quickening of travel and the speed of telecommunications went hand in hand with powered wheel technology. Only the internet and computerisation have eclipsed the humble telephone.Today, rarely when the ringtone beckons is it just a call to say hello. When we aren’t making calls, we’re receiving them. And even voicemail enacts on our behalf when we’re call obsessed, busy with every call and all the ones to make, finding time in between to access recorded messages. Mobility and fourth generation cell phones have even eclipsed the good old cable equipment. The telephone is our slave, doing a thousand things at once, keeping us in touch with every possible event in the world serving us 24/7, or are we becoming slaves to it? At times I think it is life interruptus. Could we ever exist without the telephone?I have often thought in quieter moments of wizardry and magical influences play a part in all things we could not effectively replicate with our own hands, and explain fully to a ten year old. If anyone from the past were to visit today they would consider the telephone to be something of the devil. The thought that the phone has been controlled by forces beyond man’s conception; evil powers, enchanted sorcerers bewitching our lives and influencing every hour of our lives is a whimsical idea. But not so fiendish when attempting to question your last bill, or wanting the latest upgrade from your supplier... I offer a light-hearted delve into this realm with this portfolio, where feminine skulduggery lurks beneath the surface and provides an eccentric set of images.The photographs are meant to excite the spectator. Dishabille to heighten a sense of voyeurism, visual incongruity to meddle with conformity, and entertainment that inadmissible nonnegotiable affect to interpret a picture in an individual way regardless of how we feel at the time. It is a bizarre world of make-believe executed in my usual irreverent way.
Martin Billings 9th November 2011
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© Copyright and Photographed by Martin Billings – September 2011
Since the beginning of time until the moment Graham Alexander Bell’s invention became available it was necessary to be within earshot of somebody to conduct a conversation. The telephone changed all that, although the former is still regarded the better option. The change to society’s lifestyle, business opportunities and behaviour kept pace with the growing quickening of travel and the speed of telecommunications went hand in hand with powered wheel technology. Only the internet and computerisation have eclipsed the humble telephone.Today, rarely when the ringtone beckons is it just a call to say hello. When we aren’t making calls, we’re receiving them. And even voicemail enacts on our behalf when we’re call obsessed, busy with every call and all the ones to make, finding time in between to access recorded messages. Mobility and fourth generation cell phones have even eclipsed the good old cable equipment. The telephone is our slave, doing a thousand things at once, keeping us in touch with every possible event in the world serving us 24/7, or are we becoming slaves to it? At times I think it is life interruptus. Could we ever exist without the telephone?I have often thought in quieter moments of wizardry and magical influences play a part in all things we could not effectively replicate with our own hands, and explain fully to a ten year old. If anyone from the past were to visit today they would consider the telephone to be something of the devil. The thought that the phone has been controlled by forces beyond man’s conception; evil powers, enchanted sorcerers bewitching our lives and influencing every hour of our lives is a whimsical idea. But not so fiendish when attempting to question your last bill, or wanting the latest upgrade from your supplier... I offer a light-hearted delve into this realm with this portfolio, where feminine skulduggery lurks beneath the surface and provides an eccentric set of images.The photographs are meant to excite the spectator. Dishabille to heighten a sense of voyeurism, visual incongruity to meddle with conformity, and entertainment that inadmissible nonnegotiable affect to interpret a picture in an individual way regardless of how we feel at the time. It is a bizarre world of make-believe executed in my usual irreverent way.
Martin Billings 9th November 2011
TO VIEW PORTFOLIO PLEASE CLICK HERE