Atherton is an English photographer now living and working in France. I found him on tinyvices and really enjoyed his "speckled" series, in which he documents mundane, seemingly out-of-date places with expired film. His focus is (clearly) on time and the effects of the past on the present, which is elegantly illustrated by the photos here.
"When I showed the pictures at an exhibition in Berlin last year, lots of former East Germans were convinced that the scenes were from Soviet-era Germany, when in reality they were taken in 2008 in Paris and London.”
I particularly like this series because no post-processing was involved, which I think pushes the idea of time as a force acting on the physical as well as the conceptual.
These last two are interesting--in addition to architecture and nature, he used the same effect on a recent international tennis tournament, giving what is usually glamorously displayed on flatscreen tvs a timeless quality.
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