When visiting Bradford, I am interested in seeing Daniel Staincliffe's work, titled 'Fauna Automata, British Wild Boar'; the description for the exhibition being 'explores the British wild boar population through photographs taken by the boars themselves' which I found instantly interesting and unusual. The work is a result of Daniel Staincliffe's artist residency in The Forest of Dean, and the photographs are a result of his scientific style of recording the movements and habits of the boars. Staincliffe developed a camera which was set up in the forest, and triggered to take a photograph every time a boar made a movement near the camera.
I think I might find this exhibition interesting because I think the whole idea of it is quite cute, and strangely mysterious because not much is known about boars - a point which Staincliffe is trying to make by bringing them into the public eye and increasing awareness of them. Staincliffe's work also reminded me of the documentary 'Polar Bear Spy on the Ice' which had a similar idea of putting video cameras out on the ice to 'spy' on the polar bears and capture their movements.
Some more photographers I am interested in seeing are:
- A Scene For a Small Crime by Alan Dunn
- Strange Lights by Joe King & Rosie Pedlow
- UFO by Julian Claxton
