Photography
CUBA IN WAITING
Everyone is waiting for change. Though there is genuine reverence for the king-like figure of Fidel Castro and his revolutionary achievements, everyone is nevertheless waiting… This collection of photographs is part of a series of photographs which has emerged from Erik Knudsen looking at this ‘Cuba In Waiting’ over the past 3 or 4 years. Taken mainly in Havana Province, he has waited for moments and fragments of stories to present themselves to him and has tried to capture these moments as a reflection of his feelings about Cuba.
PhotographsDOUBT
Doubt is a photographic and film project exploring faith and creativity through feelings of doubt in the context of a society that on the surface seems increasingly secular and certainly more materialistic. Using notes from 30 years of notebooks, recent photographs and a revisiting of previous film work through the creation of a a Essay Film, Erik Knudsen explores the very deepest motivations for wanting to create and grow.
PhotographsFAREWELL PAPA FIDEL
In this short photographic essay, Erik Knudsen’s compliments his Cuba In Waiting photographic essay with a depiction of the public memorial service held following the death of Fidel Castro in November 2016. It was fortuitous for Erik Knudsen’s to be in Cuba at that time and here he brings closure to one long chapter in his relationship to Cuba.
PhotographsLOCKDOWN WALKS
During the height of the UK’s lockdown of freedom of movement and economic activity as a consequence of the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Erik Knudsen took the opportunity to rediscover, with his camera, intimate and everyday local imagery from his extended walks around his home in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. The result is a series of photographs taken between April and May 2020 in which Erik Knudsen seeks to express the feelings evoked by the extraordinary moment of social and economic paralysis.
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