‘Losing Connection’ photographs by Allan Grainger   10 - 16 May 2010 Private view Wednesday 12 May, 6pm Brighton Media Centre Gallery   www.allangrainger.net contact@allangrainger.net     mob. 0777 155 7499

"With the advances made in digital photography and Photoshop I realized that for the first time photographers could free themselves from the limitations of the darkroom and realize the world as they wanted it to be. In this sense they were now on par with the painter.
‘Losing Connection’ could not have been produced without the digital revolution in photography. The work consists of various tableaux that show visual contradictions, a sense of isolation and disconnection. The carefully constructed images contain signifiers that mark an unsettled state.
One of the photographs in the exhibition was inspired by Édouard Manet’s painting ‘Music in the Tuileries’ 1862.  The painting shows the collective spirit that prevailed in the new social order of the nineteenth century. The photograph shows an opposite view to that of Manet’s painting. The sparsely populated park scene in Paris shows people ‘locked-in’ their own world, while behind them, soldiers and an old official march through the scene signifying the state’s controlling presence."

‘Losing Connection’ is a collection of allegorical images of now.