A funny thing happens when you sit at a beach for a long time. You become numb to the crashing waves. Sounds blend into a mash of white noise. Colours and events blur and average out, and within all of this there is silence, both mentally and aurally.
The long exposures of this series mirror this experience. The colours are whitewashed, much like their corresponding sounds. A visual silence is achieved. The dramatic tones of reality are muted and what is left are subtle variations, as if seeing life through tracing paper. The beach is vast and empty, yet so full of emotion.
By keeping the shutter open for up to three hours, a median between dramatic sunlight and cloudy periods is captured.
Samuel Edward Burns
Born Sydney, Australia 1979
Samuel Edward Burns is an artist working in the photographic medium. Primarily self taught, he chooses to shoot on traditional film based large format 4x5 and panoramic cameras which offer a slow contemplative method towards his photography.
Initially drawn to landscape photography for its contemplative nature, he travelled extensively around Australia and North America on solo journeys, allowing him to delve into the emotion of place and time.
His work has developed into an exploration of conceptual ideas and an underlying urge to portray human emotions whilst also staying close to his love of the introspective nature the landscape allows.
Sam currently resides in Sydney as a commercial photographer specialising in location and architectural photography.
