In 2013 I had the assignment to shoot a number of works by Anish Kapoor, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, as part of the Sydney International Art Series. . The 360˚ panoramas were part of a digital app for the iPad created by the now-defunct Oomph company.
I’d never photographed a sculpture exhibition before so it was quite exciting, not to mention the artwork was amazing and not a little challenging.
Aside from the traditional 360˚ panoramas of the artworks there was a rather unique piece that consisted of a white wall with a large “white bump”. Shooting it as a 360˚ panorama wouldn’t have conveyed the way you actually had to view it, that was by walking side to side of the object so you could see the depth.
In this case I had to shoot a partial object spin. This is a number of still images shot at a specific distance usually in a circle around an object. Here I was shooting around a semicircle I quickly made with some rope on the floor.
When I am Pregnant - 1992
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Kapoor has created some of the world’s most ambitious and recognisable contemporary artworks; in this selection of key works across two floors of the Museum, you can encounter Kapoor’s powerful artworks up close and in-depth. Highlights include his early powdered pigment geometric sculptures, a 1000 names; the 24-ton Memory (2008) which completely fills one of the MCA’s spacious galleries as if squeezed between the white walls; S-Curve, comprised of two dished rectangular plates joined together in a nearly invisible seam and Sky Mirror, a six-metre-wide concave dish of polished stainless steel weighing ten tonnes and angled up towards the sky.
