Jeff Winch
Sleepwalk
January 7–February 5, 2000

Jeff Winch’s colour photographs would best be described as “exteriors” as opposed to “landscapes”.   This is so due to the human clues that populate the urban fringes of his images. In the artist’s words, “the places photographed would not be considered particularly interesting or attractive by the light of day. All of them are noticeably aging and abandoned, if only temporarily. In various states decay and repair, these places have biography, potential narratives, a scent of ghosts.”  What separates these images from the often over-traveled terrain of the urban document is Winch’s theatrical approach to his material and his almost narcoleptic responses to his own environment.