About The Work
This image is taken from Rivers' film, There Is A Happy Land Further Awaay (2015), commissioned for his exhibition at Camden Arts Centre. Capturing the spectacular landscapes of the remote volcanic Republic of Vanuatu archipelago, before they were devestated by Cyclone Pam in early 2015, the footage becomes a ghostly document of an ecosystem now irrevocably altered. Filmed on 16 mm and then digitised, island imagery of active volcanoes, underwater WW2 debris, children playing, and wrecked boats transform into intangible digital recollections of the island, made on the opposite side of the world.
Courtesy of Camden Arts Centre
About Ben Rivers
Photograph
Silver gelatine printed from a negative
8.07 x 7.87 in
20.5 x 20.0 cm
This work is signed and numbered.
About The Work
This image is taken from Rivers' film, There Is A Happy Land Further Awaay (2015), commissioned for his exhibition at Camden Arts Centre. Capturing the spectacular landscapes of the remote volcanic Republic of Vanuatu archipelago, before they were devestated by Cyclone Pam in early 2015, the footage becomes a ghostly document of an ecosystem now irrevocably altered. Filmed on 16 mm and then digitised, island imagery of active volcanoes, underwater WW2 debris, children playing, and wrecked boats transform into intangible digital recollections of the island, made on the opposite side of the world.
Courtesy of Camden Arts Centre
About Ben Rivers
- The quoted dimensions are for the paper size. The image size is 15 x 15 cm.
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