Research. The Enigma of Time.

Catriona Grant

Catriona Grant has studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College in Dundee.

She teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and works freelance with community groups on arts projects. Her most concentrated project, with which she has been engaged for over ten years, comprises a series of imaginative and intense studies of her family.

All of her images that I have seen involve different people, as we are made to believe, but due to the fact that their faces are always directed away from the camera, it is hard to be sure.It is shown that these are real people, who appear to be going through a lot of things, and due to the photographs having a door open to the left of her images, it is as we are the outsiders looking in on these situations.

Something I am inspired by is the transparency of the people in the image, creating the look of “they are a memory”. These images also have a sense of space, taking place in different rooms with a lot of negative space. Whether the person is sitting down or standing up, they are looking away from the camera and though it is unsure what they are looking at or thinking, there is a sense of isolation in her images.