Description
Inspired by the tinsel scarlet and reds of Christmas shop windows, using colour for this set of photographs is a new departure for Summerfield. Need and desire are wilfully blurred in a crimson haze throughout shopping centres, all the more garish when seen beside the muted colours of rough sleepers in streets and doorways. The consumerism he shows is resistant to examination, to questions like: “What good comes of this?”These photographs show a different but equally shocking contrast — the ever more discordant commercialism, with glossy and brash store windows, shopping mall displays, the crass glitter of the festive season. This is a photographic sermon, to invite us to compassion.
