Chroma Tales: Limited Edition Photo Series by Daniel Shipp.

When Everything Is On The Cards, 2022.

When you’ll be fine, 2022.

Daniel Shipp is a Sydney photographer and artist whose work focuses on the overlooked, forgotten and discarded. Wild plants discovered in unremarkable public spaces; basketballs salvaged from the gutter; bikes abandoned in the street—these are the objects he seeks out to celebrate. We proudly featured Daniel’s work in our collaboration with Arflex back in 2019.

In his latest work, a series of limited edition photographs titled Chroma Tales, Daniel has studied a selection of trophies sourced from his local community. The mementos represent athletic achievements from football and tennis to jazz ballet. These forsaken trophies feature a figure posed in an archetypal way denoting the sport that they represent.

“I’ve removed the figures from their structures and modified them by cutting or grinding away their obvious sporting references,” Shipp explains. “By arranging them into unexpected compositions on a set lit with highly saturated light, their monochromatic bodies become tinted with colour palettes designed to further defy their sporting origins and introduce another layer of expressiveness to their form.”

Yellowtrace x Arflex Presents: Art—Design—Arflex.

I feel enormously proud to share with you the details of our latest collaboration with Arflex Australia, which saw us conceptualise and curate a multi-channel campaign and a series of exhibitions that celebrate the magical union of Italian design and Australian art.

The images reference moments in popular culture, from the optimism of 1930s musicals, 1980s airbrush illustration and the colour palettes of vintage animation. This highly stylised and polished aesthetic is achieved in-camera without digital compositing or graphics tools.

“By changing their context, the accepted meaning of the figures and their gestures becomes negotiable. I’ve used them to express narratives based on life experiences that are formative, but not necessarily particular to me,” Shipp concludes.

For more information on Chroma Tales, click here.

Daniel Shipp's Photography Exhibition ’Botanical Inquiry’.

A rich, poignant celebration of the overlooked plants and flowers growing in the cracks of our modern world...

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[Images courtesy of Daniel Shipp. ]