John Gossage

This is another photographer I've just discovered and love. If I keep looking through all his photographs I'll have 100 pages of research of just his stuff so I'm stopping myself now and showing him to you all.

He has a similiar aim to myself with his photographs; he examines spaces and uses the emotional context of their history.

Here is a statement I found on him that seems to outline the aim of his work:
John Gossage (American, 1946- ) is an artist who makes history present in photographs. He photographs places and sites that tell an everyday story: paths worn through abandoned tracts of land, corners where debris collects, markings on a wall, a table after a meal. Gossage photographs that which has just occurred to remind us that we may have already forgotten it happened or that we were there. By asking us look at what we have misplaced or abandoned he brings us face to face with the present as it becomes history. Throughout the 1980s Berlin became Gossage's overriding focus. Berlin, with its Wall, forgotten tracts of land, unwanted histories - both forgotten and remembered - became the place where Gossage discovered the ideas that have come to mark his personalized style of photograhic storytelling. The art from this period is arguable his most important and has unquestionable influenced all his subsequent work.