“For me, there’s no difference between dream and reality…I never know if what I’m doing is done when I’m dreaming or awake” - Man Ray

Klaus Major’s new work ‘Unfamiliar Territories’ (Series I and II) is exhibited for the first time, at Blender Gallery, Paddington, Sydney. As a contemporary Sydney-based photo-artist, his aim is to “capture reality and abstraction, beauty and danger, external and within”.

This is his third solo show of pinhole photography, following the success of Reservoir at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and Window at First Draft Gallery, Sydney.

The panorama photographs in Series II were taken with a film camera. On one level, the photographs are an interpretation of the Australian landscape, drawn from experiences of various remote locations across Australia, experiences such as the shimmer of white heat, or the hypnotic poetry of repeating forms.

Metaphorically, they can also be seen as an exploration of other realities, such as a personal inner world and mental states, exploring a fluid mix of what might be seen as forbidding or serene, and setting known reference points adrift.