Oliver Radford is a British based contemporary photographer who’s work predominately studies the often missunderstood and overlooked beauty of the environments in which we exist.
Pushing its viewers to think and question the way in which we choose to see, or not see, our surroundings. Oliver focuses on taking himself into the real world and documents what exists allowing it to be conceptualised to apply a deeper, underlying narration to the world.
Oliver’s aim is to change perceptions of how we see and present the true beauty that exists around us in our every day lives.
About ‘Knuckles That Have Never Been Cracked’:
‘Knuckles That Have Never Been Cracked’ is a body of work studying the in-between state of adolescent boys on the verge of adulthood and at the edge of their environment; it is an insight into the culture, behavior, placement, style and the uniform worn by these people.
The work explores a familiarity I seek out within all of my work, a nod to home and the people that adorn it, an outward looking indirect exploration of myself.
Within the work I am interested in creating portraits of the boys and their surroundings, showing the tough exterior and prominent stature they project when confronted with the camera, pushing the tension between the sitter and the photographer and breaking through it, creating a seemingly true image of the subject.
I hope to display the boys in a way which they are denied due to their stereotyping and neglecting from society, in a new and softening light.
The work is a movement toward and an attempt at changing outlooks toward a misunderstood and beautifully innocent age and culture.
