Fervour and Longing
The images from the Fervour & Longing series are the culmination of a two-year period in which I regularly photographed my adolescent cousins in rural west Wales. Using a 4x5 camera and controlled lighting, I created a stage for each subject to initiate and act-out a range of self-presentations. The resulting images reveal intensity within the child subject while essentially mapping out their leisure activities against the modest backdrop of their domestic landscape. Dressed in the ubiquitous sportswear of urban youth, their portraits cross-reference a wide repertoire of imagery and allude to the complex modes through which children now experience the world and situate themselves within it. Several of the images bare a strong resemblance to classical depictions of children, enabling the work to revise the mythical encounter with nature with modern props and altered fairytales.
About Kate Greenslade
I was raised in downtown Toronto (Canada) by a Welsh mother. I received my first degree in Photography and Art History from Concordia University in Montréal. I worked as a freelance graphic designer for three years before pursuing an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London, England. My work has been part of several group exhibitions in Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, London and Paris. I'm currently based in Toronto to pursue a project involving a competitive adolescent girls hockey team that the Canada Council is funding.