Photographer Sarah Pickering has been making some noise - literally. The British Photographer has been making a name for herself capturing firey military explosives exercises creating a series of images in 'Explosion' that are eerie in their stillness and power. She used her time with the British Army to Capture the unique bursts of smoke and light that resulted from detonating certain types of bombs including land mines, artillery, air fuel and even napalm.
Her new series results in spending time as artist in residence at the U.K. Fire Training College, and document spaces called "burn units" that are used to simulate household fires. "My work explores the idea of imagined threat and response, and looks at fear and planning for the unexpected, merging fact and fiction, fantasy and reality. The images are a representation of society's coping mechanisms, which are often happening out of the public arena."
Each photograph is created at a moment when the flames begin to take hold of the contents of the room and, like her previous images of explosions, these photographs suspend a moment as it unfolds.
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