When we talk about car photography, the image that comes up in most people’s mind would likely be glaring front lamps, wind breaking streamlines and smoking tires, appearing like it is ready to hit the road at any moment.
Fact is, cars do not have to mean race cars. It does not necessarily have to go at a speed of 200 km per hour, and car photography is just the same. The image doesn’t necessarily have to be flamboyant and magnificent. Lark Foord is a unique photographer who shoots cars with a fresh point of view. Not following such prevailing customs, his series entitled “Parts” should give you a new look on car photography.
As a documentary style photographer, Lark Foord does not shoot journalism photos nor sceneries. He only focuses on common elements spotted on the streets, such as the shadow casted on a wall, the floating dusts in a pitch or the fruit that fell onto a concrete pavement. All these tiny details sparks a new sense of minimalism.
“Parts” continues his photographic view and uses random encounters that he has with cars as his topic. Including images of a currency symbol graffiti car window, a red car which matches spontaneously with the store in the back and the build up of dust on an abandoned police patrol bar, each photo focuses into the car and each car embodies their very own history and story, much like a human being. The saying of how the car is just like a man probably refers to such meaning.
