Jericho Sailing Centre - 4 SIZES
Redpath's detailed photographs are comprised of multiple, high resolution images in a single composition that emphasize industrial colour, texture, and scale. Works are mounted to an archival aluminum substrate and are framed either in a floating frame without glass or in a contemporary shadow box frame behind plexiglass.
This uniquely Vancouver image features the Northwest Coast city’s ironically greyish summer skies as well as the unmistakable freighters of English Bay, with colour provided by the clothing and personalities of the people themselves.
There is an off-kilter mystery in Redpath’s images of human activity: a purposeful strangeness with which Redpath comments on elements such as time, nostalgia, loneliness and interconnectivity. The explanation lies in the artist’s incredibly detailed planning, construction and manipulation of multiple images. Redpath reveals: “Each final image is usually composed of 15-50 individual shots. I consider the human activity, the weather, the time of year, the time of day, the angle of the light, the quality of the light, the state of the foliage, the tidal movement, and the image framing, all as I shoot multiple images in a short enough time to catch what is happening yet without much sun or tidal movement. While the motion and poses of the human subjects are unplanned, the process of digital image construction that follows is where I hone the composition, selecting and placing the figures from multiple shots. Extremely high resolution also serves to heighten reality – my current system enables 14,204 pixels wide in one frame.”
