Photographer: David Burdeny, Vancouver, BC, Canada Image Title: Stray Rip-Wrap Category: Landscape   Technical Details: Hasselblad 500 c/m, 80mm lens, Ilford Delta 100 film, f/8, 2-1/2 minutes Location: Spanish Banks, Vancouver, British Columbia Description: My work focuses on the study and exploration of quiet, innocuous spaces at dusk and dawn, where the land is momentarily held, emerging from and receding into darkness. Embedded between the natural and domestic, these landscapes are often found at the periphery of parking lots, highways, urban parks, and public beaches. Each day these spaces are made and unmade, and I am drawn to them for the weightlessness that lingers after activity ceases. They are charged with an alluring sense of anticipation - of what was and what will be. The idea of exclusion is central to these images: left behind, left outside, forgotten. They are intentionally vacuous and hollow, devoid of human presence, but clearly touched by it. They contain an element of tension and speak of vulnerability and strength. I see them as visual metaphors for the struggles we encounter every day.   David Burdeny was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1968 and attended the University of Manitoba from 1989 to 1998, where he studied printmaking, interior design, and architecture. He relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2001, where he continues to practice architecture and photograph the landscape of the Pacific Northwest and Canadian prairie regions. His central Canadian roots have greatly influenced his penchant for creating simple, exacting photographs from encounters with everyday places and objects. David is represented by the Jennifer Kostuik Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. and has begun exhibiting across Canada. His work may be found in several publications and private collections.   Group exhibitions in 2003 include Arts 2003, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C.; Recent Images, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge, B.C.; and Artropolis 2003: Residue, curated by Pauline Conley, CBC Building, Vancouver, B.C. Other group exhibitions include the Fifteenth Annual Juried Miniature Show (2002), Michael Gibson Gallery, London; Kathmandu Urban Images, Gallery 111, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1996); and the Red River Exhibition Juried Photography Show, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1992).   David Burdeny Phone: 604-742-0613 E-mail: dburdeny@shaw.ca   Return to 2003 Galleries | Return to 2003 Landscape Gallery     Home | Contact Us | Copyright