Sarah Pickering explores the role of fantasy in the real-life preparation for war by allowing us a glimpse of rarely seen commodities – the scaled-down, mock explosives produced for use in military training exercises and action movie battle scenes. Pickering brings her camera to the sales demonstrations of these simulated pyrotechnics, detonated for executives from the military and movie industries. Pickering’s work exposes the theater involved in the preparation for war, and offers refreshing insight to the unlikely marriage of military culture and the entertainment industry.
Sarah Pickering received her MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London (2005). In the same year she was awarded the Photographers Gallery Graduate Award and the Jerwood Photography Award, established in 2003 to support promising young or emerging photographers. In 2005, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York hosted Pickering’s first solo show and her work is included in the recent Phaidon anthology on contemporary photography, Vitamin Ph. Pickering lives and works in London.
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