Daniel Harrington - Limbo
Daniel’s work is a social documentation of his surroundings, exploring the people and architecture on the streets of London and Manchester.
Daniel is fascinated by capturing people within their natural state but also gives consideration and focus to their varied reactions to the camera. He is also interested in the statistic that people in the UK are the most watched in the world, with the most CCTV cameras per member of the population. Despite this, people seem to be oblivious to it and carry on as normal; it is only when there is the physical human aspect of someone standing behind a camera that reactions are invoked, ranging between an assortment of emotions including fear, surprise, laughter and anger depending upon the person, situation and the attitude of the photographer.
Creating a connection between the people and architecture is key to Daniel’s work and has featured throughout the majority of his shoots. He has explored capturing the connection between the person and architecture in a social aspect but has also strived to capture physical evidence of connections within his images.
Limbo is a term that has always fascinated me, the time between two times, a waiting period, in-between the before and after. This project was built up from the stages of limbo I face when travelling around England via coaches, the limbo stage within my Journey. The eerie and lost atmosphere, is a feeling I get when wandering through the empty coach stations during the ten minute stop off point of my journey, normally quite late at night at particularly empty stations. A feeling of being lost but wanting to document my new surroundings within my state of limbo.
My pictures do not focus on the people, but on the architecture and objects that have been left behind; this results in a sense of abandonment you would not find many of todays busy railway stations and make me ask the question is travelling by coach a dying form of transport, purely used by the working class or people in education.
The use of dull artificial light helped me to create these images and capture the atmosphere using 35mm film.
Limbo is created by pause where life does not move on but is at a complete standstill, this is when the majority of people sit down and wait for this time to pass. Documenting this time is bringing limbo to life.
Instagram: @dj__harrington
Website: www.danielharrington.org