Yesterday afternoon and evening was exceedingly long. I was due to attend the Rooftop Collective at Metro Imaging so I went up early to check out Anywhere and Everywhere – the UCS BA(Hons) Photography Lolondon variant of their degree show. As with last year’s group they used Hoxton Arches, in Hoxton of all places. Such […]
Old dogs and new tricks
A fellow nomadic photographer chum remarked on Monday that he wanted trade in his RB for a Fuji GW670, also known as the Texas Leica. Well, yesterday I spent a hectic 8 hours scanning negatives for Year 3 students at UCS. I’m very impressed with the work submitted for scanning and I’m looking forward to […]
The difference between auctions and taste (apologies to Keith Arnatt)
There comes a time when we all resort to an auction of some kind, be that to buy something or sell something. I am minded of the time when Mrs O’s mother had been incarcerated into a secure dementia care home and it was up to Mrs O and her brother to dispose of her […]
Foggy and Clegg take lunch somewhere in Suffolk
It was a long day yesterday. I’m taking part in a longish project documenting the docklands of the Orwell with a number of of other photographers, commercial, professional and amateur. Ipswich wet dock has been recorded since the dawn of photography and this weekend saw the increasingly popular Ipswich Maritime Festival take place with thousands […]
Getting on with other work
The last year has been crazy getting Edgelands up and onto a wall and the last week has been even crazier but life and work go on. I’m looking at rebuilding this site so I started experimenting with new designs last week. It will take a while to work out what works best but I […]
Edgelands Exhibition – all crated up
All the work is now ready and crated up for transfer to The Museum of East Anglian Life. Now that the artwork is done it is final editing of museum catalogues, labels etc. If anyone ever thought that we artists just make pictures all day then let this dissuade you. The rather excellent ‘What do […]
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 […]
More film back from the lab and new pieces from the UCS Fine Art Auction
I have been steadily working through my stock of Portra 160 and called into the Kodak Pro lab today to collect the latest batch. Every time I pick up my film it is like the very first time I saw a print emerge in a tray as a child. I have never lost, nor will […]
Alert, Vigilant and gone for a Burton
I was alerted to the Trinity House vessel moored in the Wet Dock a few days ago but last night as I made my way from the station to the UCS campus to visit the ‘Untitled.’ degree show student’s exhibition last night at St Clement Church I noticed a revenue cutter was moored alongside the […]
Last night I went to an art show that had photographs in it Mr Jones
I am no Jonathan Jones. Every time I read a review of his that concerns photography, his words and insidiously snide comments irritate me beyond belief. Maybe his role as an art critic for that otherwise erstwhile tome, The Guardian, is meant to provoke and irritate. I somehow doubt it. He is opinionated and vulgar […]