PHOTOGRAPHY | SCANOGRAPHY | SCULPTURE

Multidisciplinary artist Jacob Kamara practices both photography and sculpture, considering his work a conversation with the subject or material. He comments, 'It’s a dual performance in which I learn as much about the final form or picture as I do about myself.'

Jacob’s photographs mostly depict masculine figures, often employing unconventional perspectives to invite viewers into intimate narratives the subject. His ‘sitters’, sometimes human, sometimes botanical, exude a profound sense of connection and introspection. Often, his portraits will be taken from behind his subject or so close that all you see is skin. His images are captured on 35mm film or through a process where he scans his sitter with a standard A4 flatbed scanner and stitches the scans together - sometimes these are anatomically correct, sometimes he uses various body parts to create a ‘character’.

In sculpture, Jacob's forms are built from raw, unrefined stonewares or porcelain, often scarred or inlaid with other materials. Part of his practice involves spending as much time manipulating the materials by adding chemicals or metal shavings as he does building the forms.