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Sarah Pickering: Fire Scene

Jonah Samson
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"My work explores the idea of imagined threat and response, and looks at fear and planning for the unexpected, merging fact and fiction, fantasy and reality. The images are a representation of society's coping mechanisms, which are often happening out of the public arena."

Each photograph is created at a moment when the flames begin to take hold of the contents of the room and, like her previous images of explosions, these photographs suspend a moment as it unfolds.

Fire Scene
Through 15 March 2007
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