CREATIVE MALTA: INIGO TAYLOR
Malta’s size is at odds with its place in history, with such an incredible history of invasion after invasion, an identity that has been by influenced by Arabs, Sicilians, two hundreds years as a British colony and a position in the Mediterranean that both Napoleon and Hitler coveted as a strategic crossroads.
This series under the working title of ‘On Malta’ looks at several themes and much of the work has nuances that are probably quite hard to pick up on for an outside audience and he quite likes the idea that this work is for Maltese as much as it is about them. It is Malta’s isolation as the way he see’s it the only absolute Mediterranean nation (no land locked borders etc) is at the centre his work.
He plans to publish the work as a book, the editing process for this project has taught him tremendous amount about his strengths and weaknesses and to create a narrative and stay away from a collection of pictures that try to explain Malta factually,
The series is made up of tightly edited landscapes, details, portraits and street scenes. Weaving these kind images together and creating a sequence is where photography starts to get interesting.
