Anne Hardy is a British artist that uses photography to manipulate spaces in order to have the space appear to be abandoned. She constructs these sets in her studio and through photography she captures a image that would be believable if they were to be observed up close. This is shown well in her work, Lumber, 2003-04, where her construction doesn’t look fabricated. Anne Hardy includes objects that have either been discarded or no longer serve their original purpose. Within Lumber, Christmas trees are included in the space, this creates a makeshift storage room. In this case, because of the fact that the Christmas trees are overwhelming the interior space, it leads to questions as to what lies beyond the trees.
Lumber, 2003-004
What I found interesting about Anne Hardy’s Lumber, was the fact that she gathered discarded objects and brought them into a staged environment. Anne Hardy chooses not to document these objects in the area where they were found but, to give them a new purpose in a new environment.
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