Sunday, 4 July 2010

Saturday, 26 June 2010

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Decisive?

Last weekend in the baking heat Hope and I decided to take a walk up to the summit of Cleeve Hill in Cheltenham. As we were wondering round and I was taking some photo’s Hope brought up how there are never any pictures of us together due to the fact I wont let anyone else apart from her use my camera. As a muse we have endless pictures of her in all the places we go but never the standard couple picture. As I was processing these images I began to think about why we take those pictures holding the camera out at arms length or asking a passer-by to have the honour of immortalizing ourselves together in that place. What are we saying with these photos. “We were here then”..? That’s a bit old hat. Maybe its just about shared experience, maybe it’s about capturing the feelings you only ever feel in the presence of that person. I decided that rather than have that one decisive moment when the clouds part and the birds are singing and our love is infinite, I would try using a group of images presented as a mini montage to represent all that that one single image would say. All four of the images that were used were taken from that same shoot. It’s a little bit sentimental in comparison to the rest of my work but it filled the brief as far as Hope was concerned so to me that's a success.

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Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Need to pick two extra portraits

Need to pick two extra portraits to exhibit at the degree show. These are my options.

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I am favouring the second image of Alex, the young boy and Kelly, the last girl from the Night Shift series. Email or FB me with opinions.

 

   

Saturday, 1 May 2010

Final Major Project Book Layout

After getting the poetry that is to accompany my major project I decided it would probably work better as a book than a slideshow. I realise that its pretty late in the day to be designing and printing a book but hopefully it will all come together in time *gulp*.

Here is the completed layout ready to be sent to print.

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Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Small Town

This is a few shots from my first shoot towards my collaborative project with Simon Hayward, “Small Town”.

This is a new Hi-def version as the picture quality on the last one wasn't great.

Friday, 29 January 2010

Rheumatoid Arthritis

These are a few photos of my grandfather I took two years ago. They were taken while he was waiting for his knee replacement operation due to rheumatoid arthritis. I was alarmed at the physical effect his medication was having on his body and being a sufferer of Ankylosing Spondilitis myself I wanted to document the impact it was having on him. I have decided to re embark on this journey and look deeper into this disease and the people that live with it. I am hoping to get to know other people that have been diagnosed with arthritis and observe what impact, if any, it has had on their lives. I feel it is important to see that while it is a serious disease that can be extremely painful to live with both for the patient and the people around them, it does not signify the end of life as we know it, if anything the appreciation of the life we have increases.

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Friday, 22 January 2010

People and Environment

I have been becoming gradually obsessed with photographing people and their environments, not necessarily together but just focusing on how we adapt and respond to our environment and also how we use our environment to reflect elements of our representation. Here are a few shots that I have taken with this idea in mind.

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