“The world is extremely fragile, so you might as well do something you like doing,” says photographer Hector Jonathon McKenzie Clark. We agree 🤷♀️
in a series of dynamic portraits back home in Australia's winter, after he fled New York as the ensuing pandemic hit. Mercy and Agot run, laugh, and dance in a series of experimental portraits that capture each models' unique personality in the photographer's own backyard-cum-photo studio. "They were just so physically brave and wonderful," says Clark. "Honestly, I think we were all just glad to be out, working, doing what we love, and creating something different.
LOVE spoke to the photographer on what inspired the hypnotic series, maintaining creative in lockdown and why he fell in love with photography in the first place.Tell us a bit about yourself. What triggered your love for photography?First, I became obsessed with the ‘technicalities’ of photography; light, camera mechanics, lenses, that kind of thing. Then I started to shoot more diverse subjects. If I’m going to be honest I was very “art illiterate”, for lack of a better phrase.
I ended up after a year of travelling, working and photographing in South America, going on to study photography. It was there that I really fell down the rabbit hole and became obsessed with the photographic process and especially darkroom processing. I was interested in the kind of anti-vernacular image, and its ability to ‘self’ interrogate visually. To look back upon how I shaped my own identity and what caused me to be my own ‘self’.
In February I had just moved to New York when the world literally slammed shut, and I had no choice but to return home to Australia to sit it out for a while. That was a real bastard of a decision to make. I’m still recovering from that and planning to go back as soon as I can. Look, it’s tough to accept where the world is right now, but to a certain extent you just have to, or you go mad. I find a small dose of nihilism helps me find my way to the other side of difficulty.
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