Geoffrey H. Short's Gorgeous Photographs of Explosions
New Zealand artist and photographer Geoffrey H. Short
hired special effects experts from the film industry to set up
explosions on the black sands of the New Zealand coast. They mixed
fossil fuel and gunpowder and set the explosions in mid-air to cause
minimum damage to the environment, while Short caught them in his
camera. Geoffrey H. Short said in a statement, “I am not trying to tell
people what they should think, rather I am making art objects which I
hope will make people think.”
Geoffrey H. Short, who hails from
Auckland, is a graduate from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University
of Auckland. After leaving university in 1980s, he worked as a
documentary photographer at the Waikato Museum in Hamilton. From 1990 he
freelanced as a commercial photographer, specializing in stills
photography for film and television.