Acquiesce the front by Luke Shadbolt

The photography of Luke Shadbolt documents the exchange, cycle, and balance of power fundamental to the functioning of our planet and its oceans. It is an exploration of the balance of light and dark inherent in nature – both on a physical and qualitative level.
 

© Luke Shadbolt. Acquiesce 8, 2017.
Giclée digital print on Archival Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper
100 x 150 cm, edition of 8 + 2AP, $4,800 unframed, $6,100 framed.
73 x 110 cm, edition of 8 + 2AP, $3,000 unframed, $3,800 framed.
© Luke Shadbolt. Acquiesce 8, 2017. Giclée digital print on Archival Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper 100 x 150 cm, edition of 8 + 2AP, $4,800 unframed, $6,100 framed. 73 x 110 cm, edition of 8 + 2AP, $3,000 unframed, $3,800 framed.

In his first body of work, Maelstrom, 2016, Shadbolt captured a series of sudden, fleeting, chaotic acts which produced an oceanic force of sheer primal ferocity. A duality that occurs in nature; creation and destruction in a single act. Reflecting upon these chaotic weather events of the 2016 El Nino incident, Shadbolt was prompted to examine the broader array of moments that fell before, after, and in between these violent deliveries in his latest series, Acquiesce the front, 2017

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