David Evershed

evershedd@yahoo.co.uk

 

Artist Statement

I’m not sure if I would call myself "a photographer". I make work that produces and appropriates photographic images and uses the tools of photography.

One of my earliest memories of childhood is being in the bathroom in my Grandparents' house in London. My uncles had blacked out the windows and were using the room as a photographic darkroom. I remember the intensity of the smell of the fixer combined with cigarette smoke. Telstar was playing on the radio. I remember the red-orange glow of the safelight and the grainy black and white images slowly emerging on sheets of 10x8 in the developing dishes.

My fascination for the photographic image began.

In my practice today I still return to the lens and my uncles’ collection of old cameras, which are now mine. I also use modern, digital and cctv cameras, charity shop finds, pinholes, in fact anything that makes an image. They are my research tools and the starting point for all of my work.

My work investigates nuances of memory and meaning through the use of photographic images. The apparently mundane and uncelebrated rituals of our daily lives absorb and intrigue me.