{"id":3409,"date":"2009-02-06T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrew.albert-visuals.at\/buffet\/sean-davey-tv-election-portfolio\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:27:31","slug":"sean-davey-tv-election-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"buffet","link":"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/de\/buffet\/sean-davey-tv-election-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Davey &#8211; TV Election Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Here is another project celebrating not only a historical presidential inauguration, but also comments on the way we take in such monumental events as artists and photographers and try to break them down and see past the dangers of clich\u00e8.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1136\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-601.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1137\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-602.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1138\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sean Davey<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">TV Election Portfolio <\/span>&#8211; Limited Edition Portfolio, 2009<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\";font-family: verdana; font-size: small;\">Here and interesting text from Spiro Miralis about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.com.au\/\">Sean&#8217;s <\/a>portfolio, sorry I am not at home, having trouble posting and the line breaks might be a mess&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The task of covering an election, any election both here or abroad, for one reason or&nbsp;another, is a daunting task. To attempt to cover it artistically and in search of the&nbsp;occasional self-truth, well that\u2019s just silly. One can\u2019t help but slip into photographic&nbsp;clich\u00e9. Getting through this slip is easier if you accept the process, but even that&nbsp;won\u2019t deliver you closer to the freedom you feel when shooting the street, or a lover.&nbsp;Still, for reasons we never know, sometimes the eye and the heart share a beat and&nbsp;the finger taps the old familiar shutter.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Sean Davey is warming up.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">One night in November 2008 at his parent\u2019s house in Canberra, Sean Davey sits in&nbsp;front of a television set watching the U.S election coverage. His chest is heaving with&nbsp;emotion but Sean still isn\u2019t giving in. Following the counting of the votes, he sets his&nbsp;camera to a 15\/sec and prepares. The occasional mishap grabs his attention and he<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">shoots after it, more hoping really than anything else.In the morning he looks over some two thousand images.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Most photographers think they have reached their end point. Not Sean. Sean has&nbsp;them printed small and lays them down across the floor of a large room. He stands&nbsp;in front of them, only wanting to feel now. Like the sober recalling after a night of&nbsp;wild dreaming, Sean realises he has only his starting point.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Stripping back the clich\u00e9s, past the all too-familiar, the party flags, the candidate&nbsp;hopeful, the multitudes of media people, Sean pushes on, clawing at something more&nbsp;important, subtext. But even now he is suspicious. Preconceptions are falling quickly&nbsp;and he feels that\u2019s a good thing. Certain images begin to emerge suddenly. One can\u2019t&nbsp;help but feel exposed here, like being ashamed by your own dirty laundry. The image&nbsp;of a hooded black man walking his white dog heaves up at him. A young all American&nbsp;girl sits on her lounge, alone in her demographic, her eyes somewhere off screen,&nbsp;uncertain. The backs of men staring far off at some impressionistic background of&nbsp;simple circus architecture separates from the bulk, everyone and everything about&nbsp;the image hard and silent. A young diamond studded ear-pierced black man seems&nbsp;frozen in his muted howl, and you can\u2019t help and think you may just know why.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Sean has his selection now. Sean has heard the subtext.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Now the images feel like those he has shot before, at home, with his lover, amongst&nbsp;his real friends. Suddenly the process has come full-circle. And then the realisation&#8230;&nbsp;the images in front of him, and those that flickered off the television set only the&nbsp;night before, were as real as anything he has shot previously, as wet with emotion&nbsp;as his very first selected image. The process was self-discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">It was never enough for Sean to have had just one hand in the now, grabbing at the&nbsp;election, hungry. Sean always kept his other hand free, pulling in the forever.&nbsp;Looking back at Sean\u2019s final selection; one might ask \u201cwhere is the election in all of&nbsp;this?\u201d Well, elections come and go. What only remains is the subtext. And when you&nbsp;understand that, then there just isn\u2019t much need for images of party flags and hollow&nbsp;candidate speeches.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Spiro Miralis, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-603.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1139\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-604.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1140\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-605.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1141\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\";font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px;\">3 images from the portfolio, Sean Davey, 2008<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">TV ELECTION Portfolio<br>Portfolio includes 68 gicl\u00e9e prints (30.4 x 40.6cm)<br>8 page Japanese folded Introduction<br>Essay by Andrew West<br>Essay by Spiro Miralis<br>Edition of 10 +2AP<br>AUD $6500<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\";font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Individual images also available:<br>30.4 x 40.6cm (gicl\u00e9e prints) AUD$280<br>40.6 x 50.8cm (type C prints) AUD$350<br>Edition of 5 +2AP<br>(edition inclusive of both print types)<\/span><br><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3410,"template":"","class_list":["post-3409","buffet","type-buffet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sean Davey - TV Election Portfolio - Andrew Phelps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/buffet\/sean-davey-tv-election-portfolio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sean Davey - TV Election Portfolio - Andrew Phelps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is another project celebrating not only a historical presidential inauguration, but also comments on the way we take in such monumental events as artists and photographers and try to break them down and see past the dangers of clich\u00e8. 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