When Patrick Brown set out to capture the vast open spaces of Western Australia, he assumed it would take a couple of weeks to shoot. Yet his photographic mission, to explore the negative space between objects, took more than a year of shooting landscapes, from coastal Shark Bay to the dusty goldfields region of Leonora and back to Perth again.
In the first tranche of a series he calls Hope, the Sheffield, England-born artist, raised in Perth from age 12, has created a series of monochromatic prints shot on now discontinued Polaroid 665 positive / negative film.
“I was fascinated by the ambiguity of ‘hope’, which is always perceived in a modern context as a positive word,” he recalls from his home in Copenhagen, where he moved two years ago after marrying a Dane whom he met during his two decades living in Thailand.
Hope, says Brown, is shadowed by doubt, right down to the…
