4th August 2018
Every year in August, a pilgrimage to Graceland, is undertaken by tens of thousands of people from all over the world, on the anniversary of Elvis’ death. People who saw him live on their TV screens or at the height of his fame, stand alongside those who only know him as likeness or recording.
We have an ability, through subjective significance, to create importance upon the material. As a fandom, as a mass, we can raise places to the status of landmark, souvenir or religious object. We can create religious experience where someone may have stood, sat, or performed, and yet it can be tainted by the souvenirs embedded by our same greed of consumerism. It is the ability to mourn for someone we have never met and to embrace someone we have met only for the first time.
The work takes a dualist form between abstract and documentary, toward the invisible apotheosis of Elvis. In this way the photos concentrate on the places and items that have been endowed with importance through relation, much in the same way have been imposed with importance through choice as photographer.
Daniel Dale is a photographer and self-publisher working in the North East of England. His work has not been widely exhibited or entered into many awards, although has been complimented many times by his mother. Graduating in 2013 from CCAD with a BA in Photography he has since spent his time trying to find what the f**k he should be taking photos of. As a documentary approach his work draws inspiration from philosophy and the ontology of image, as well as family holidays to Tennessee. As of September Dale will be undertaking his masters at the University of West of England.
@DANOFTHEDALE
DANIELDALE.CO.UK
We have an ability, through subjective significance, to create importance upon the material. As a fandom, as a mass, we can raise places to the status of landmark, souvenir or religious object. We can create religious experience where someone may have stood, sat, or performed, and yet it can be tainted by the souvenirs embedded by our same greed of consumerism. It is the ability to mourn for someone we have never met and to embrace someone we have met only for the first time.
The work takes a dualist form between abstract and documentary, toward the invisible apotheosis of Elvis. In this way the photos concentrate on the places and items that have been endowed with importance through relation, much in the same way have been imposed with importance through choice as photographer.
Daniel Dale is a photographer and self-publisher working in the North East of England. His work has not been widely exhibited or entered into many awards, although has been complimented many times by his mother. Graduating in 2013 from CCAD with a BA in Photography he has since spent his time trying to find what the f**k he should be taking photos of. As a documentary approach his work draws inspiration from philosophy and the ontology of image, as well as family holidays to Tennessee. As of September Dale will be undertaking his masters at the University of West of England.
@DANOFTHEDALE
DANIELDALE.CO.UK
