New work by Dave Imms

June 21, 2011

Following up to his ‘Butchers’ series, Dave Imms’ recent work involves pictures of squash players. He has photographed them immediately after playing a competitive game. It is called ‘Squash Players’.

“I want this set of images to be clinical but also resonate a sense of grit. I think a lot of that is done by the arena of the squash court with it’s hard lines and colourless walls, but it also comes from within the nothingness of the sitter. Simply, this person has nothing left to give.

There is something about the human condition that interests me. Not only is it the physical (sweat, aches and pains), but the mental…The things we put ourselves through in the name of leisure…”