Time is a strange dimension. Academic years are a strange dimension. Seasons are strange dimensions. Even when I was a spotty faced youth attending Grammar school back in the 60’s and early 70’s the Autumn term (we had terms in those days) always seemed the longest and after the New Year everything ran downhill rather […]
Quiet January – so far
Blogging has been low on my agenda these past 16 days. To be honest, I was utterly exhausted by the time Christmas arrived what with all the planned and unplanned events during December but also to do with a full on first semester of my final year at UCS. Something had to give and I […]
Vegetation – Anyone know what this plant is?
One of the plants I am currently photographing is foxing me. This plant is growing on contaminated ex-factory ground and to all intents and purposes, it looks drought resistant judging by the silvery hairy leaves. What type of plant is it? It seems to be quite frost reistant so far also.
Trafalgar – Art at Prettys
This week has been hectic. We opened Trafalgar – the fifth Art at Prettys collaboration on Monday night. As curator, I found myself very busy showing around the Mayor and Mayoress plus the Provost of UCS. The evening was a blur and I ended up having to make a poor impromptu speech that I nearly […]
Strange week
The past week has been full on and utterly exhausting. What with hanging the Trafalgar show at Prettys and the scary incident of a 24 year old fellow student working on the hang suffering a stroke, fitting in a 6 hour shooting day for Edgelands, researching for degree project and dissertation I feel wrung out. […]
Edgelands continued
Yesterday saw a full on 6 hours of shooting on large and medium format film. Plenty of Portra 160, 400 and Ektar in the can waiting to be processed. These are HP5+
More edgelands photographs
My degree project continues. These are some more emerging content for my edit on being just outside or in-between AONBs The fly-tipping is an interesting one in that I was on the team that introduced Landfill Tax. My role as Business Analyst on that project saw beyond the revenue take and green aspirations at the […]
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 […]
Swansong
Photographing on the edges for my degree project discovers hidden gems in this fine county of Suffolk. This picture just off the Strand outside the AONB by the width of a road was a surprise find.
Wrong side of the track 2………….
Today has been a whirlwind of a day. Truly and most utterly inclement weather this morning saw a delayed start to UCS work with renewing AOP membership, ordering even more film (where does it all go?) and then calling Sam Mellish of ‘Roadside Britain’ fame to ask if he could help out with our degree […]