Time Watching: David Houghton
University of Hertfordshire Galleries is delighted to present Time Watching, an exhibition by photographer David Houghton.
Image: David Houghton, M6, 2008
Houghton’s photographic work explores and documents ordinary everyday images and situations that we normally overlook and take for granted. Using techniques similar to time-lapse photography, his work combines multiple photographs to create a single image. Viewed as a whole the images create patterns and abstractions that take on a collective ambience different from the sequences they are made from.
On occasion the photographs are visually very still, while at other times they explore the energy of movement. Present in all of Houghton’s work, however, are the constant themes of searching and longing.
Houghton comments: ‘When I look at the image (the work ‘Leaving Cambridge’) as a whole, it reminds me of looking at photographs of the universe taken from telescopes. The darker images show clusters of stars, while the bright images are exploding stars and the processes that create black holes. The image reinforces in me the sense of how small and insignificant our life-spans are when set against the infinite spans of time and space.
Houghton is currently based in Cambridge and studied Graphic Design at Isle College, Wisbech and Amersham & High Wycombe College in Amersham.
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