CROWLEY, Lisa, 1969-
Untitled 6, from the series, City of Earth (Photograph)
Lisa Crowley practises a peculiar type of
landscape photography, one concerned with
place, but place laden with human experience.
She chooses politically charged sites with
significant histories, yet her images offer little
or no discernible evidence of locality, past
events or current tension. Instead she invokes
the conventions of romantic landscape painting
and 19th century scenic photography, directly
raising the question of the medium’s real ability
to document a place and expose its history. A
picture of a heap of felled trees can be simply a
picture of piled natural debris; its significance
can only be materialised by human experience,
she suggests.