Jasper White

This isn’t the first time Jasper White has featured in the BJP – we ran his Man sheds project, a study of Australian men’s most private spaces, in February 2011. His latest personal project, Bird Cages, is another spin on personal space, this time tracing the rooms within rooms of pet birds in Barcelona.
My personal favourite set of Mr Whites photographs is the one titled 'Sheds'. The familiar setting in his work give for an interesting spectacle which I can relate to, to a certain extent. This recollection is something that draws me into the image. There is so much that one can read into them.

 What he has to say about the 'Sheds' set- "I’ve recently completed a project shot in various locations throughout Australia that takes you into the private world of working men’s sheds. These sheds are the personal retreat of their creators, filled with the various ephemera of their lives and interests. Viewed as a whole, each shed becomes an extreme focal point of human individuality in what could be described as the barren wasteland of rural Australia. The shed frames an individual portrait of its creator, and this visual impact of the unusual and the unpretentious is what I find so interesting."

Below are several images from this set.