Neil Pardington's "The Vault" series is based off the idea behind 'The Radcliffe Camera' building. In Latin, a 'camera' is a vaulted room or chamber, closely linked to the camera obscura and illumination chambers. Pardington views the camera as a miniature room within itself in "The Vault," particularly a "storehouse of ideas and images (or as Kodak would have it, memories)."
"In a somewhat reflexive manner, this series focuses on the places we store those things that are most precious to us, and conversely those very similar spaces we store the obsolete and unwanted."
Pardinton visited archives, libraries, banks, museums and art spaces to photograph spaces of storage that visually "shrink and gleam in their dark stores."
"There is a redolence of a different kind- the collected clture and history of those things we deem important enough to keep, and those we too easily discard. And in the end we may wonder which tells us more about ourselves."
Ornithology Store #2, 2006
Land and Marine Mammal Store #3, 2006
Land and Marine Mammal Store #5, 2006
Land and Marine Mammal Store #1, 2006neilpardington.com
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