RESPIRATION London Photography 2004-2011
5.30PM, Tottenham Court Road Tube Station

Camera equipment and photographic technique - each photo was taken with a Nikon camera using 800 Asa film and an aperture speed of half a second, without a flash as a camera flash is forbidden in the London tube stations due to safety issues for the train drivers. Taylor took around 500 photos in one hour, working with the low level of light that was available in these fixed conditions.

Medium & materials: Photography are printed on a Fujicolor Crystal archive brillant paper, under plexiglass and PVC with strong thick aluminium frame.

All the panels are equal in size and are somewhat higher than a typical door frame as Taylor likes to have viewers look upwards at his artworks and not be at eye level with them, although he is flexible as to what sequence the individual panels are arranged in.

In the Artist´s Own Words:
“As part of my artistic research, I chose an experimental palette. This photographic series of new work is focussed on the interpretation of my various experiments with life; it encompasses the important stages in my life at both the emotional and “relational” or worldly, external levels.

In the forms of a diptych, triptych and polyptych, this work plays with a certain visual architecture, trying to communicate a need to split up and fragment its various emotional interpretations.

The objects - the train and people - move in a space that has been created artificially, from the outside of their being.

The act of breathing and the reflection on love, life, the present and the future led me to write texts in French, English and in Latin, expressing the linguistic spirit and essence of my origins.