November 2011
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Molly, reveal, Bristol, 2001
I took this photo of a chair in an abandoned school in Clifton in Bristol when I was working with Molly and a few of her friends on the reveal project. Molly was interested in breaking into abandoned buildings and building sites with her friends, and wanted to be photographed in this location. Her mates liked hanging out in the building sites, sitting on the rooves and generally feeling apart from...
“Anything worth having is worth cheating for.”
– W.C. Fields
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Early Work 1: Bag 'O' Nails, Bristol, 2001.
I first saw the possibilities of making a series of four images of the same place in Bristol when I was learning to see non- commercially with the large format camera. I had previously used 35mm cameras exclusively when I was a freelance in London for 11 years, two Leica M6, and had bought a 5x4 inch field camera for an advertizing job that required the polaroid edges you used to get from Type 55...
Digital Life 1: Pride and Joy Mercedes, Barcelona,...
I only shoot one or two projects a year, and they are shot over a relatively short period of time. Recently I photographed the L’Aude section of GRID Cities in the south of France over a period of four days. That’s over one hundred exposures in four days, and the driving around. Of course, the post production takes the rest of the year, making contacts, scanning to get 300MB files, editing...
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time means nothing when you're in the right...
Years ago when I was young, when the future seemed to go on forever and immortality was a realistic state of mind, my friends and I used to spend hours talking nonesense and philosophy over a few beers and whatnot, usually late into the night on hot summer weekends outside in a breezy place with a view of Sydney harbour. We had no idea, of course, but believed we did, and I remember one night we...
