Tuesday, 25 September 2012

The 180 Degrees Project (Turning My Back On The Photograph)

In the 1990s, I travelled the Southern States of America with a photographer.

I took my camera, an Olympus Mju Zoom 35 MM Film Camera: point and shoot. But I was at a loss as to what to photograph.

I tried to focus on a small-town kind of vernacular but, unlike the photographer, who'd spent his formative years in America, I'd grown up in Europe; it wasn't a language I spoke or understood.

So I devised a plan. Whenever the photographer stopped to make a picture, I positioned myself behind him; back to back, facing in the opposite direction.

I turned my back on the photograph, and took whatever stood in front of me.


Monday, 24 September 2012

Preparing To Top Out


Chunky VI (5b), The Yawning Stone, Gradbach Hill

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

The Sign Of A Civilised City (Bravo)

Even base animal instincts are curbed through humane methods of positive reinforcement.





Sunday, 16 September 2012