Luke Armitage

Engaged in the world of art, especially in photography, Luke has shared with us some insights, particular approaches and self-awareness over his work and its reality.

“For some reason, weird things kinda tend to happen around me, near me –I’m constantly like, ‘man you won’t believe what just happened.’ I always had a disposable camera on me, so I could take pictures for proof. I have always been hyper-observant, but with photography, I found this to almost amplify my awareness. I would find myself, time would almost disappear –cause I’d be completely immersed in the process.”

On one side, the repertoire of visual memories collected, materialized evidence of the moment and place. The portrayal of raw, undecorated lifestyle of fate. In the other one, that bet, that blind poker hand you go all-in, plata o plomo; money or death. At the dichotomy of what is worth to live or pack your things and go away. That gateway to philanthropy: an art process which saves you.

“Everything kinda snowballs, there was this weird storm of events and emotions that led me to this point, I was trying to figure it out –what happened?”

Are we all part of a simulacrum? Or meta-worse, are you even the protagonist of yours? The elements in the pictures contain fragments of the reality that serves to keep your unattached of the whole shadow of industrialism and consumerism. It independently dissolves that thought-structure-perception created from the ephemerous macro-information. Serving patrons, that led to the conclusion – aren’t we all trying to shape reality somehow to empathize with somebody else?

“I create art to showcase how things could be, and not like a fairy tale or in an overly optimistic way. But there is a beauty within the world despite how difficult it is and I want to show that reality to people.”

As a message in a bottle that has been taking care by weather phenomena and arrived to your feet with the growing of the tide. That’s how this solitude is representative in narrative and images. Photos to unite comprehension, in representation of bittersweet ideas that come and go; eternal for a second, now framed in a picture.

 “I realized how sensitive I am to sounds and environment: I’m fascinated with how the universe works, it doesn’t make any sense to me but there is a structure and an organization to it that is divine. The more I’ve been taking photos, the more I see –you start to recognize complex patterns.”

 The maneuver of light, whether its strength is augmented or reduced. The total control upon its manners, its moods, and its freedom. Synchronic levigate of people and scenarios. Non-narrative coherent description of mind states. Snapshot analysis through the perspectivism of a post-postmodernist photo.

Words by: David Chavez
Photos by: Luke Armitage