I was recently included on the blog www.500photographers.com (see it here)
Netherlands based photographer Pieter Wisse has set himself the task of adding 5 photographers a week for 100 weeks to his weblog. He's already included some of my favourite photographers, and several others with exciting work whom I didn't know, so it's worth taking a look. I'm sure the site will end up being a useful resource to photographers and those that appreciate photography.
I also stumbled across an entry about my work on Lifelounge. I loved the witty-but-spot-on commentary by "Georgia":
"I don’t feel so concerned anymore that my work needs to be immediately comprehensible. I’m consciously allowing concepts to evolve and develop in a less linear fashion. I’m enjoying the possibilities presented by a more enigmatic or mysterious tone...where you only get glimpses of what may be a more encompassing psycho- drama..." - Simon Strong.
In other words, you're not meant to 'get' Simon Strong's work. We're not expecting you to sit in front of your computer screen for twenty minutes, psychoanalysing the darkest corners of these images. instead, take them for what they are: a little bit fucked up and a whole lot aesthetically saturated. In fact, if you do manage to pull some freaky-deaky voodoo meaning out of Strong's work, you should probably considering booking in for another session with your shrink: there's nothing normal about glowing cabbages.
His heavily layered and constructed photographs seem both familiar and surreal at the same time. Strong plays with the idea of normalcy: how far can you push the boundaries of the visual image before we begin to disregard it? Embrace the wack-ness. Naked bodies are rarely sexual, men are nonsurplussed when trapped inside glass boxes, and having a string of Christmas lights spew from someone's open mouth like an escaping fiberoptic tape worm seems perfectly ho-hum.