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See the art pieces hanging on the wall, behind the guy? Those are mattresses he has photographed and has turned into extra-ordinary displays. Toby Richardson takes photos of these mattress portraits by not only capturing it’s hidden beauty, but also the meaning and story behind it.
TOBY Richardson looks perfectly sensible, which must be a real asset when it comes to procuring the subject matter he likes to photograph.
He says people find it weird when he knocks on their door asking them if he can have the stained, burnt, ripped, chewed mattress they’ve left on the footpath. But then they agree to talk into his tape recorder about the sort of life it’s led and why they’re discarding it.
Over the past couple of years he’s picked up about 70 mattresses from the streets of Adelaide. He stores them in his backyard shed until there’s a student break at the South Australian School of Art where he teaches and then ferries them there and photographs them.
Given their obvious bulk, the easiest thing would be to work with the mattresses flat on the studio floor — but Richardson doesn’t do that.
He mounts brackets to the wall and secures the mattresses upright so that each one slumps in a way that’s commensurate with its age.
Because he shoots on large-format transparency and then makes high-resolution scans, when his images are printed (to not quite life size), the flowers, stripes and other unmistakably mattressy patterns — as well as all those icky marks and rips — bounce off the paper. Richardson doesn’t want these pictures to look like photographs but as if they’re mattresses.
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