Let’s be fair about this, the weather of late has been grim, just grim. Temperatures and isobars are all over the place. In desperation to get some medium and large format work done I got out on site late yesterday afternoon about an hour before sunset. I am starting to make new work based on […]
Bitterly cold, bitterly disappointed
I have watched the weather forecasts with glee over this past week seeing that today would have a high sitting over us therefore perfect windless conditions to get the large format cameras out. The dark slides were loaded up yesterday and it was an early bedtime to make sure I was up at 0530 and […]
Pulling more information out of Portra film
I have been conducting more tests on old favourites. Here is an example of a scene that can no longer be seen like this. I need to get down there with the large format cameras and see what I can capture without getting flattened by a dumper truck. Same negative two different scanners. Without […]
Swaffham Visual Arts Festival & a potential new location for Alec Soth
On Trafalgar Day, also Mrs O’s birthday, dry rot discovery day, graduation day and now Swaffham Visual Arts Festival day I motored up to Swaffham with Mrs O through Thetford Forest. It was a wonderfully bleak drive through persistent drizzle that made for stunning autumnal colours. These days are rare and to be cherished. We […]
The time has come
Ever since April came and went I have been yearning for September. I tend not to make too many images during the summer months, I do make some but not to the same extent. Anyway, tidying my workshop up ready to re-erect my temporary dark room was a job I had been putting off for […]
Morning has broken
I had a request for a close up of one of the Mimosa flowers so after the winds of the last few days, the forecast was set right for dawn today with sub 3mph winds and what a dawn it was too. I felt that tremble as blood and emotions coursed through my veins at […]
Retrospectives, student shows and gearing up to Edgelands
The last few weeks have been full on. Starting with the UCS Arts Faculty student shows, a retrospective by Borin Van Loon in the Freudian Sheep, a pop-up exhibition by UCS photography students in Hoxton, collecting framed work from MF Frames, oh, and throw in working in Newcastle for a few days and an AGM […]
Scything
I am no Ross Poldark. Ask Mrs O. I have done a bit of scything in my time though and also a bit of sickling – infinitely more dangerous than wielding a scythe though. One of the things I learned about scything apart from being a back breaking chore was the selective cutting of vegetation. […]
Edgelands – the cull has started
I had to go into UCS today for a meeting so I took advantage of the vast and empty Fusion Lab to lay out 75 printed medium format images from the last edit of the series. This time last year Lux Locus were busy preparing to hang a pre-degree show exhibition in Ipswich Town Hall […]
The kindness of other artists
Yesterday was a typically grim Easter Saturday. The afternoon brightened up somewhat not least of which was down to another opening of a new monthly exhibition at The Freudian Sheep . I got to know one of the proprietors whilst at UCS. Mossy was a Fine Art student, I a photography student. Since he and […]