RESPIRATION 2007

In 2007, the artist reworked copies of his RESPIRATION series 2004 – 2007.  He only sells editions of 5 for each finished photograph as an artwork, and every single set of panels has been acquired by a number of collectors ie. this series has almost “sold out”.

So Taylor decided to revisit this unusual subject, the London Tube photographed with a Minolta camera without a flash.  His unique photographic treatment of speed, light, colours and people as commuters in a modern metropolis has transfixed his collectors´ imaginations.

The artist chose his favourite photos from the original series and redid them on the computer by using software to magnify the first, unmanipulated results from his shoot in the Underground in London. 

By using a photoshop programme, Taylor then manipulated the images of his first “pure” photographic series, RESPIRATION 2004 – 2007. 

The second series RESPIRATION 2007 could almost be described as cellular as the camera seems to be examining the molecular structure of the Tube station. 

The actual materials of the underground trains are under examination, as if the material the machines are made of were being viewed under the unrelenting gaze of someone using a microscope.


From the original RESPIRATION series, 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.

Energy, movement, light and the colours bring an almost vital nourishment to me…”