As of this past week, Edgelands has moved up a gear. Various impediments to progressing the extended shoot have now been overcome and a weather window has permitted a second visit to a new location identified last November. The forecast for this morning was spot on or indeed in reality better than spot on. I […]
Edgelands – a Stowmarket excursion
After yesterday’s glorious dawn, today is somewhat dull, grey, cold and damp. Today will be about mainly working indoors. I have broken out of Ipswich and Shotley Peninsula in my quest for more Edgelands locations. There are a number of locations I have found around Stowmarket but access to the right viewpoint at my preferred […]
Actions speak louder than words
I am continuing to shoot locations for my extended body of work ‘Edgelands’. Most if not all of the sites that I find to photograph have had their post-war industrial function erased leaving just scars in the landscape yet somehow nature prevails. Such is the way of the natural world. What amazes me is the […]
Tooks taken over
When I first came to live in Suffolk one of the first things to see on entering Ipswich from the West, was the Tooks bakery. It was a large rambling site of factory sheds and delivery lorries. One of Mrs O’s uncles was a director there so as we passed by it I’d often hear […]
Waste not want not
I watched a BBC ‘World About Us’ documentary this morning. Simon Robinson, a PhD student of photography tweeted the link and as I studied the author and presenter as part of my degree project work I’ll share it also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL7-LqQhjE This film was shown in July 1975 , produced by the BBC in Bristol as […]
What is beauty?
I am making work for the East Anglian Contemporary Group of the RPS. The project is on the Wet Dock and environs in Ipswich. Over the last month or so I have been looking out for aspects of the dock that would make for a contemporary series of images and I discovered this old lady […]
A taste for heights
In a recent meeting with partners discussing a forthcoming exhibition I showed a few test prints from my series Edgelands. These were 1×1.25m inkjet prints and I pointed out that the camera was about eight feet off the ground for these images. I often shoot my large format images of landscape features this way but […]
November – RPS Photobook Exhibition time
November already and I am thrilled to see these images sent out today by Brian Steptoe FRPS co-organiser of this exhibition with Rod Fry ARPS. The Edgelands book was made specifically for this competition from my degree project series. It includes medium and large format images. An earlier publication I made for the Ipswich and […]
RPS Book Exhibition 2014 – Edgelands shortlisted
Making photo books was a big thing at university. Tutors were pushing all the time for books to be made and several were. I ventured into the realms of a handmade, albeit bound by a proper book binder, book at considerable cost but with individually hinged pages, pages that I had printed myself. I also […]
Autumn. I think it is here
It seems like aeons ago that we were in Harrogate, but it is only a week since we got back. An elongated summer has helped the paint dry quickly this week and my mind is turning towards re-starting the Edgelands shoot. Just a few too many leaves on the trees at present for my […]