Paul Tucker - Artist's Statement

Paul Tucker's photographs capture the transient scenes between the beginning and the end of a construction project. Individually they are small moments in time, collectively they show the scale of time passing and a building realized.

His incredible ability to be seemingly absent from the images which he is photographing, allows the subjects to tell their own story.  Given the opportunity, a humble shovel resting against a wall becomes specific and special, a pair of new doors wrapped in plastic awaiting release, have a sense of presence beyond their functional use. Every image is loaded with an expectancy of what will happen next, or what has just been. purposeful yet restful. A composition that appears initially to be rich and classical, is on closer inspection a scene of everyday objects. Tuckers technical excellence reveals the beauty in even the most  familiar textures.  

Paul Tucker is a fine art photographer from London . He is interested in looking behind the scenes and at the heart of a building, whether it is coming to the end of it's life or just beginning. Paul has recently photographed the Hawker Siddeley engineering works in London's East End just before demolition, and subsequently the new art school built on the same site. It is this state of "before and after" that Paul is intrigued by. Paul's photographs of Dubai explore the transformation of the desert into a modern city and the contrasts that exist between the two.

Please refer to http://www.paultucker.co.uk/hspt.html for engineering works images

and http://www.paultucker.co.uk/bremer.html for school images