James Buso

Eight Days a Week

Novas Warehouse

The photographs that form the basis of the work presented here were the products of a combination of a cheap automatic camera, patience and a degree of luck. My interest in photography lies in both its accidental and incidental nature. My subject is the information people disregard in such photos and I try to focus on what goes unnoticed in our day to day, which on closer inspection merits more attention. My intention is to make work that makes people look at their surroundings, so they can see not what they expect but what is actually there, not an ugly industrial scene but a graceful silhouette against a blue sky, or the reflected vista echoed in a fleeting glimpse of suburbia.

James Buso was born in Los Angeles in 1972 and immigrated to rural Cheshire in 1984. It is through this contrast in environment that he became interested in the landscape and our perceptions of it. On completing his studies at John Moore’s University he stayed on in Liverpool taking a studio at Arena. Much of his recent work has focused both on travelling through the local area and the mountains of North Wales. As well as his own practice James helps manage the studio group and helps organise shows for the recently created exhibition space