Thomas Bangsted

In a world of digital hybrids, Thomas Bangsted is a purist. A photographer in the classic sense. Bangsted travels constantly, searching out landscapes with a surreal twist, or perhaps he searches out a place through which, he can tell his own story -a subtle tale of sly wit.

Working with a large format camera, he labours over the composition of each shot until it is delicately composed, so precisely imprecise that it often leaves the viewer questioning the whether or not the photograph is digitally constructed. In these images you will see the most elegant sinking ship, a herd of cows standing in a pool of what could at a glance, appear to be mint frosting and 'the last kiss' for an abandoned car and helicopter.

- Mia Nielsen (Curator of Looking The Other Way)


"Mockin'bird Hill (Goat)," 2004, C-Print, (30 x 35 inches).

Thomas Bangsted's photograph of a goat on a peculiar wooden structure has so much energy, both in the absurdity of the subject and in the crafting of the image itself, that it has plenty of material to become a modern classic.

- Fotografisk Center / Denmark


"Untitled (Car with Helicopter)," 2005, C-Print, (29.6 x 38 inches).


"Tri-Dura," 2003, C-Print, (40 x 50.5 inches).

Bangsted's images invoke a range of pictorial modes, from historical landscape painting to 19th century photographic practices. They accumulate to form an aesthetic practice of history, where Romantic and picturesque imagery is reinvented and re-presented in service of a visual investigation of our notions about landscape as a repository of meaning and emotion.

- Aaron Schuman (SeeSaw)


"Watering Place (Cows)," 2005, C-Print, (23 x 48 inches), through Danziger Projects.