Pool
Isaac Hoddle
Pool [detail] 2024
Portrait of Brittany Hoddle
120 Film
10 x 8 cm
About the Artwork
I am working on a body of work called the ‘Crocodile Flats’ project, which is about Far North Queensland, a place where the heat can be stifling. The sitter is my wife; she was cooling down in a pool and I thought the moody atmosphere fit well in the body of work. The work is concerned primarily with the interaction between people and the built environment, but there is an element of tension and anxiety.
About the Artist
Isaac Hoddle is a photographer based in Far North Queensland (FNQ). He is interested in documenting place and human interaction with the environment. FNQ is an unforgiving yet unique environment, full of plants and wildlife that are deadly and primordial. It also feels transient somehow and otherworldly—a place where you can literally watch things fall apart. If the cyclones and animals don’t get you, the mould will. It is also a place of elemental and profound beauty.
Isaac has been included in several photography shows, most recently the Subjectively Objective, Investigations in Infrastructure group show in Detroit, USA.