Paul Lambeth synthesizes the organic, selecting an experience of land. He has made a highly personal record of visual phenomena, building his own archive of specific sites, usually close to home, ‘Within Sight’.

As a photography student, some decades ago, Paul Lambeth reflected on American photographer Edward Weston’s privileging in his practice of what he called ‘the thing itself’. In 1930, Weston wrote, “Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life”. Lambeth found that Weston’s photographic vision aligned with Immanuel Kant’s philosophical concept of ’the thing-in-itself’ (ding an sich), which proposed a realm where objects exist independent of our observation and representation. It seemed to him that Weston had transposed Kant’s concept to the practice of photography.

Biography

Ballarat-based artist Paul Lambeth completed studies in Photography at Prahran CAE and a Research Masters at the University of Ballarat (now Federation University). His photography practice including studio, architectural and medical photography.

Website: paullambeth.com