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MAGAZINE COVER IMAGE All photos exist between recognition and speculation. Common Ground has formed, a carefully constructed expanse of imagery. Each image chosen by Excerpt Magazine as a building block pressed in to place. Some images selected provoke the slightly offfeeling of Déjà vu as though the squillions of photos out there have built an eerie plain of familiarity; where nothing exists that we don’t recognise from places we haven’t been to people we’ve never met. Other images have a clarity that puts you at the spot, there. Certain photos are unreachable, their uncommon terrain breaking the sullen permanence of concrete’s materiality. The lull of ubiquity spearheaded.
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Alexis Vasilikos David Wadelton Chris Round Vivien Ayroles Mark Schaer Cynthia Wood Rohan Hutchinson Aleix Plademunt Zhang Xiao Avard Woolaver Daniel Aulsebrook Jane Brown Letha Wilson Ernesto Oroza Nicole Marie Jan Sievers Stuart Bailey Lee Yunho Yvette King Kel Glaister Heather Lighton Alireza Mirzaee Daniel K Sparkes Bridget Mac Isadora Vaughan 3
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Clockwise from top left: Aleix Plademunt, image from Dubailand Series 2008 David Wadelton, A creek in Highett 2012 Alireza Mirzaee, image from Series Forgotten 2011
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Clockwise from left: Chris Round, Car park, Lane Cove, Sydney 2011 Chris Round, Darling Harbour Flyover 2011 Alexis Vasilikos, Untitled 2003
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Clockwise from left: Jan Sievers, Silo, St Margarethen 2010 Lee Yunho, on the shore 2012 Heather Lighton, Meeniyan Hotel is for Lovers 2012
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Nicole Marie, Untitled 2012
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SFMoMA was giving away free posters (an untitled piece by Felix Gonzalez-Torres) as part of their 75th anniversary celebration, and you could see people walking around with these large rolls of paper all over the museum. I guess someone decided they didn’t want their free art after all, and [t]here it sat in a puddle of water in the museum’s top-floor sculpture garden. ‘Free’ seems very enticing, but so often free is simply not valued.
From left: Cynthia Wood, So much for free art 2010 Aleix Plademunt, image from Small Dreams series 2009 - 2010
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Heather Lighton, The Convent - Abbotsford 2011
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Clockwise from left: Avard Woolaver, Elevator Shaft 2012 Vivien Ayroles, 42 rue Pierre Larousse 2012 Vivien Ayroles, 34 rue des Grands Champs 2012
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From left: Mark Schaer, Untitled 2012 Aleix Plademunt, image from Small Dreams series 2009 - 2010
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Letha Wilson, Grand Tetons Moonrise Concrete Bend 2011 Unique C-print, concrete, woodframe
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Anti-clockwise from top left: Lee Yunho, cubes on street 2011 (image rotated by 270°) Alexis Vasilikos, Untitled 2011 Isadora Vaughan, Untitled 2011
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From left: Daniel Aulsebrook, Hong Kong 2012 Zhang Xiao, Subdue-No.7 2008
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From left: Jane Brown, Woolworths Building, Rhyll, North Wales 2008 Lee Yunho, man, seoul 2012
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Bridget Mac, Marineo, digital collage 2011
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Stuart Bailey, Driveway Guards 2011 19
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Clockwise from top left: Kel Glaister, Concrete Hands 2012 Daniel Aulsebrook, Rubble 2011 Yvette King, real and fake stones 2012
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From left: Zhang Xiao, Coastline No.279 2011 Rohan Hutchinson, Material Survey 2012
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From left: Nicole Marie, Untitled 2012 Jane Brown, Hume Dam 2011
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Concrete: it is poured, heavy, it cracks and weathers and stains. We know how it feels against our bare feet, it’s temperature in the shade, most of us have fallen upon it or grazed against it. Concrete means something definite. Yet, in all but the most bland images things that seem definite aren’t. Across the pages an alternative landscape of unexpected juxtapositions and proximities formed as Common Ground sought to test the place of place within photographs. Has everywhere become anywhere? Visually today we straddle the globe and the occupation of spaces via photography is saturated: from satellites to Street View
we have it covered. Wrapped up in ideas of Common Ground I crept through my suburban childhood, Google Street View lurching me past rose gardens whilst an awful echoing in my head kept saying, ‘don’t play on the street’. Like a cheap 80’s videogame I had trouble navigating, this surface was a deceptive labyrinth. The banality of the rolling image would have sunk without trace, yet I could verify the absence of places since demolished and feel the real world bracing itself against the pixels. Skimming across thousands of digitised images it is hard sometimes to know if the ground is contracting or expanding. I initially
expected a decimation of exactness, like the popular digital filters that dislocate nuanced light. As we get used to witnessing places we never inhabit, unverified spaces could blur and collapse. Except, that we recognise things in photos and recognise things through photos: trends, tropes, outliers, the similarities and differences to other images, all of this builds our capacity to speculate. Each image becomes a marker for others, merging in to a ‘lived photography’ that adapts, shifts contexts and inhabits space itself. by Amy Marjoram 23
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CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Aulsebrook
www.danielaulsebrookdiary.tumblr.com
Vivien Ayroles
www.vivienayroles.fr
Stuart Bailey
www.stuartbailey.info
Jane Brown
www.janebrownphotography.com
Kel Glaister
www.kelglaister.wordpress.com
Rohan Hutchinson
www.rohanhutchinson.com
Yvette King
www.artabase.net/artist/1906-yvette-king
Heather Lighton
www.heatherdiaries.blogspot.com.au
Bridget Mac
www.bridgetmac.net
Nicole Marie
www.nicolemarie.com.au
Alireza Mirzaee
www.alirezemirzaee.me
Ernesto Oroza
www.architectureofnecessity.com
Aleix Plademunt
www.aleixplademunt.com
Chris Round
www.roundtheplace.com
Mark Schaer
www.markschaer.com
Jan Sievers
www.flickr.com/people/planetkopflos
Daniel K Sparkes
www.danielksparkes.com
Alexis Vasilikos
www.alexisvasilikos.net
Isadora Vaughan
www.isadoravaughan.blogspot.com.au
David Wadelton
www.flickr.com/photos/northcotehystericalsociety
Letha Wilson
www.lethaprojects.com
Cynthia Wood
www.cynthiawoodphoto.com
Avard Woolaver
www.flickr.com/photos/avardwoolaver
Zhang Xiao
www.zhangxiaophoto.com
Lee Yunho
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