Cityscape 3rd place winner

The Term 'ENT' is a common, shortened phrase used in the theater when reading scripts. The full word 'Enter', is used in the stage directions as guidelines to when a character is to enter the scene. The first few seconds before anyone enters the stage are significant to the audiences perception of where the location is and what could possibly happen. The audience are clueless, all they know is the picture that is set before them and what they can predict may unravel.

The few seconds before the decisive moment are always considered to be unimportant. Just a backdrop to set the scenario before the real story begins but it is in that, that we lose the foundation of the content itself. Without the location, the possibilities of what may or may not happen can never come to be. This form of voyeurism keeps the audience riveted to what will happen, forcing them to create their own outcomes through the sub-conscious mind.

Growing up in an art orientated family, Nathan Roach developed an interest in art from a young age. Influences drip fed to him through his youth, including the impact of his father’s own art work, developed an unquenchable thirst to go out and create what he considered art. Since he received his first camera, he realised his passion and enrolled for higher education in the subject. In 2010, finishing an art foundation degree in the University of Glamorgan the previous year, he went on to enroll in The Swansea metropolitan University, where he graduated in July 2013, earning his 'Photography In the arts' degree. Through that time and the years to follow, he exhibited his dramatic photographs in many exhibits. The most recent being selected to take part in ‘The Royal Photographic Society’s International Print Exhibition 156', a travelling exhibition which visited galleries across the United Kingdom. Nathan's practice is currently based in the small welsh town of Bridgend.