So, I spent a total of 14 hours perfecting a hang of ‘equals’ work in the UCS Waterfront building over the weekend and Monday this week only to have my work blocked by an Oxfam display then a midwife team going for a record and now to top it all a bloody Christmas tree plonked […]
equals Historic & Contemporary exhibition work and ephemera work now hanging in the UCS Waterfront building
2013 has been a very busy year for a small group of enthusiastic students on my BA (Hons) Photography course. The original idea to hang some work outside of Uni came from Mel Belton in the first year but general apathy prevailed. Mel persisted however and in January this year we got together to try […]
By Any Means
A brief flash on the screen whilst I caught up with By Any Means the other night showed this piece of art just off Brick Lane The above taken on Nikon P6000 The original Man at Work was taken on Agfa Vista 200 on an FE2
Ephemera
I am part of a collective of photographers who operate under the banner ‘equals’ and the group blog is at http://equalsphoto.wordpress.com/ We met up on Monday to finalise our activities for a 2 week residency that we are taking up in Ipswich Town Hall. As a part of that activity we are producing work that […]
Out of the gutter
I have swung into action picking up other threads of work following my gutter exercises and found other shapes and colours that attract me. I normally have a camera about my person and some days it is a juggle to choose which one on top of or instead of the ever faithful Nikon P6000. Just […]
Red letter(sic)
As a part of my recent exercise into photographing yellow on the street for the Fujifilm Student Awards ‘the colour of…’ competition, I have been drawn to litter and wondering why and who discards is. For some time now on my walk into UCS, I have noticed discarded used condoms near St Edmund’s House where […]
40 Years on
Articles in the press last week about Don McCullin’s new film found me rummaging through his autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour’ and pondering on the look and feel of the images he is renowned for – Black & White Vietnam war and others. The report on his recent and possibly last war reporting in Aleppo showed […]
December 2012 draws to a close
After a busy start to December, things got really hectic. Little did I know that by the middle of the month I would have attended a funeral closely followed by the incarceration of mother-in-law in a dementia care home in the same week. The funeral was lovely, more than can be said for the care […]
Sign of the times
By chance I have taken a few strolls along the beach at Felixstowe with a few weeks separating the visits during June and July. I noticed that none of the ice cream huts were open and this was high summer, and mid-morning to midday. http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/galleries/landscapes/frozen/ The primary exercise was for me to push ISO 400 […]
Film or Digital?
In the seemingly never ending march of increased mega-pixel sensors do we take time to step back and ask whether we really need them? I have shot 6x6cm through to 35mm to early digital 3.3 mega-pixel through to 8 mega-pixel Dx and 12 mega-pixel Fx and back to 35mm film, 6x6cm film and 5×4″ film. […]