Shot on 35mm film, Mark Howden’s Sun is Through draws inspiration from the remoteness and grandeur of the New Zealand landscape and from the allure of aerial photography.
In 2001 while strapped to the door of a little Cessna photographing the landscape, the first impression I had was that I was seeing familiar things from a new perspective. Roads I had driven on, beaches visited or camped, sometimes an intimate knowledge of certain areas, houses or buildings. I was seeing it apart from what I knew.
I had this constant awareness too that the subject I was involved with would change, because I could see some of this process at work from the plane. Working with this footage now evokes this concept —now though with the perspective or what has changed.
The landscapes are from another reality, the project is now a dream.
Mark Howden 