LANDINGS is back for 2025, and over the next few weeks we are taking over the @falmouthphotographyonline Instagram account. Landings is a collective of research clusters: Habitats, Practices of Care, Centres and Networks and Im/material Worlds; each of which is a collaboration of artists who share a cohesive methodology of visually communicating the world in which we live.
The artists of ‘Habitats’ seek to find ways to connect the audience with the physical world around them, using both representational and non-representational imagery to portray our familiar landscapes in an uncanny way, shifting our gaze between the seen and the unseen.
Today we introduce the work of artists Gail Ashton, Alistair Crane and Pietro Ansaldi.
Gail Ashton
Gail Ashton’s work investigates emotional and synanthropic relationships between humans and insects. Her project, ‘Diapause’, uses Polaroid photography and video to analogise the processes of analogue photography and the slow biochemical change that insects undergo, hidden underground during winter. @gail_in_nature
Alistair Crane
Alistair Crane’s work highlights a very modern problem of consumerism. A three-acre site in Blackburn is contaminated with thousands of tonnes of hard plastic waste. It is unclear who owns the former factory on Paterson Street; nobody is taking responsibility for it. As one local resident says: “No one really gives a damn.” @snapper365
Pietro Ansaldi
Pietro Ansaldi’s images represent how small we could feel in front of the infinite construction of skyscrapers, but at the same time feel part of it. Taken in his service apartment room in Shenzhen on the 20th floor, we are shown the massive views he sees of the Shenzhen bay and the architectural landscape next to it. @pietro_ansaldi_ph
