Gavin Aslett

I have taken photographs seriously since 1987. I took this series of photographs in November 2000. I tend to now take photographs only when I travel abroad by myself. I believe I can reach a more intense level of concentration when I approach photography in this way. These photographs echo my sense of faith and past relationships.

The work served as a cathartic meditiation for me and I feel now that I have created and revealed this work I have purged myself from experiences that have held me back in recent years.

I have always been obsessive about the negative but equally there is the positive that runs through my work in the form of light and shadow. For example "Street corner in shadow and light" is one example of how I look at the world through a lens. Light and shadow clearly represents good and evil or darkness and light in our world.

When I created this body of work I spent alot of time roaming the streets of Madrid looking for signs, guidance, using my intuition, listening to the silent voice inside. It was the first major new collection of images that I had made for three years. In the three years since the 1997 "Digital Moments - Images of New York" exhibition at the Cyberia Internet Cafe; my life had run into a chaotic period of immense change. I did not come out of this period until mid-1999. The aftermath of those events effected me for a long time. Subsequently I felt the urge to produce some new work which culminated with these 40 Photographs of Madrid.

I hope you enjoy the photographs and I look forward to creating new images in the future.