Spotted: Geir Moseid
Geir Moseid is a Norwegian photographer living and working in Oslo, Norway. Since graduating from London College of Communication in 2008, Moseid has been working on multiple photographic series, operating at the point where documentary practice and staged photography meet.
By working with a 4x5 inch camera Moseid aims to challenge how one can talk about and discuss social, anthropological and economical issues in contemporary photography.
Communication and a humanistic approach has always been the base of the practice, while the narrative elements within the work often remain open and ambiguous. A focus on colour, texture, ambiguity and human relationships of various kinds forms the base of his practice.
Especially poignant after the year we’ve just experienced, Geir Moseid’s “Plucked” (Teknisk Industri, 2020) explores domestic life, confronting themes of alienation and social segregation. “The home is often known to be a safe space where one can be private and Intimate,” he explains. “The home has a sentiment of security that is built around the fact that we can seclude ourselves, distancing oneself from the interference and surveillance of others.”
Moseid juxtaposes these points with the notion that home can also represent something darker, citing the many crimes that occur behind closed doors. The subtly ambiguous images in “Plucked” represent the duality of these two experiences of home. “By depicting something that is familiar, yet strange, or appealing and repulsive at the same time is often regarded as a signifier of the depiction of the uncanny and raises contradictory beliefs (cognitions) for the viewer, encouraging the viewer to create his/her own opinion, which is hopefully based on the emotion that the photograph offers the viewer.”
See more from “Plucked” below!
