Introducing Kevin Newark as featured in All over the place! curated by William A. Ewing.

KEVIN NEWARK takes pictures that look like space—stars and galaxies. Or, Kevin Newark takes pictures that look like the ocean—floating particles lit by the sun and jellyfish. But the London-based photographer takes pictures of neither the sky or sea. Rather, Newark’s images are of discarded plastic bags found in the canals of East London. “Their spent utility a metaphor for our own mortal anxiety,” he says.
 
Newark further explains his approach. “I guess my own practice is fairly slow and contemplative at heart. The everyday seems to disclose much more when given time to digest and reflect.” He continues, “For me photography is a device for extending the visual experience, while also transforming the subject. A delay in cognition produces a kind of disorientation, which I’m quite interested in exploring. Perception and surface play an important role in my photography.”
 
Through his process, Newark reinterprets the mundane, recalling the notion that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. “It’s never just one thing that catches my eye,” he says. “I kind of think of subjects as having layers of meaning that take a while to figure out.”
 
—Tami Mnoian