Source Magazine
Issue 62
Page 13
Robin Friend - Belly of the Whale
Belly of the Whale - was a photography project that was inspired by the idea of getting lost. Friend lived in London original, a concrete jungle. However he had a love and a place in Exeter, in Dartmoor. A place of rugged landscape.
The work that Friend makes in this series is based on may different books and authors such as The Odyssey, Mobby Dick - The Whale and The Golden Bough. All of these have religious quality's to them as does the the title of this selection of work Belly of the Whale. The clear inspiration for this work was the biblical story of Jonah and the Whale. from the reading Friend tells us that the idea of the title was to think of the belly as being some where that is dark and alien to us, however the whale is something more positive, being that it is alive it is a vessel that get us to where we need to be in the sense that we view this work as we move along it and discover Dartmoor through the work.
"In out minds eye we always have an idea of what something might look like but this is trivial or at the very least just speculation" Robin Friend.
While on a trip to Iceland Friend was told much about the landscape and had seen many photos and films of the land, although all of this was still not enough to prepare one for what he saw as they were some one else views of Iceland and not seen though his own eyes till he arrived. In this way it teaches us that we have to experience things for our self no matter what or where we go, this is the same for photographic works every ones eyes are different and people will always see collections of work different from one another.
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