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Creative Collaboration
Stills photographer Lisa Tomasetti has collaborated with cinematographer Seamus McGarvey for her latest project
It was on the set of Charlotte's Web that Australian film stills photographer Lisa Tomasetti became friends with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, whose film credits include Atonement, The Hours and last year's Nowhere Boy.
The two kept in touch and collaborated on a project called Burnt Memory, an exhibition of large-scale portraits by Tomasetti which she will present in Melbourne and Sydney, early May this year.
The cinematic quality evident in the exhibition and much of Tomasetti's art has been influenced by her work over the past eleven years as a film stills photographer on titles such as Shine and Star Wars Episode Two.
Burnt Memory is influenced by the Renaissance artists such as Caravaggio and Vermeer whose work was dramatically lit with bold colours. "I hope the work will bring about an emotional response in the viewer. The drama is intended to create a stillness and mystery derived from the use of black in the images. For me, that is where the emotion and ‘story' lies," Tomasetti explains.
The subjects of the portraits are all women and children and represent the continuation of Tomasetti's interest in exploring themes of childhood and how life experiences are ‘written' on our skin. "This work is concerned with memory and innocence and how we can often recreate rather than recall our childhood," says Tomasetti.
Tomasetti also references the Old Master paintings in her compositions but has chosen to replace the traditional ‘white middle-class sitter' of previous centuries with women and children from different cultures. She comments, "I wanted from my sitters a very still and haunting quality that would evoke issues of displacement and memory."
The exhibition will be held at Gallery Smith Melbourne, May 6 - June 12 and Harrison Gallery Paddington, May 8-27. Find out more about Lisa Tomasetti by visiting her website.