Stephen Gill – Pigeons _alt_Sam Youkilis - Somewhere Screenprintings Roy DeCarava

Roy DeCarava

formally elevated into symbols

liberated from the landscape

Throughout her work

550 × 760 mm

Stephen Gill – Pigeons _alt_Sam Youkilis - Somewhere Screenprintings Roy DeCaravaStephen Gills photographs are devoid of sentiment or affectation rather than showing the pigeon in our world, they take us into theirs. The lens noses in under bridges, squeezes through cracks and scopes out crannies. These are images that bestow on the despised flying rats that oft trumpeted but seldom realised attribution: their dignity: here are pigeons making their lives in a natural landscape, for, whatever else humans may be, we are animals too,