Need it matter where a photograph is created? Should latitude and longitude define nuance and design?
In No Place | No Time, Peter Eastway and Tony Hewitt move beyond the factual record of landscape photography. Their works do not depend on familiar landmarks, exact dates or precise coordinates. Instead, the earth becomes shape, surface, movement and memory.
Marks appear and disappear. Tides wash evidence away. Wind, water, sand and geology create patterns that may last for minutes or millennia.
Two visions, one conversation
For four decades, Eastway and Hewitt have followed successful independent careers while continuing to collaborate on personal projects. Their shared interest in contemporary art allows the clinical capture of a camera to become a poetic and interpretive object.
Eastway's The Random Nature of Intention uses aerial perspective and creative transformation to make the familiar uncertain. Hewitt's Found in an Unseen Place searches for design, symbolism and resonance within the surface of the earth.
The return to the print
At a moment when images are consumed quickly on screens, the exhibition returns photography to physical presence: pigment on paper, produced with care, editioned and experienced inside the historic rooms of Castle Ceconi.
They need neither time nor place.