Just things I sometimes see ...
Escaping my shadow
Me, Me, Me.
Me, Me, Me.
And the broken mirror ...
And the broken mirror ...
Above: 'Suspense'
During a period of depressive mental ill-health in 2014/15 I decided to attempt to help alleviate my condition by moving away from work which I felt had become too introspective. Essentially, an attempt to stop taking myself and my work too seriously...
During a period of depressive mental ill-health in 2014/15 I decided to attempt to help alleviate my condition by moving away from work which I felt had become too introspective. Essentially, an attempt to stop taking myself and my work too seriously...
This collection of pictures, which I continue to add to, are glimpses of everyday scenes that just crop-up unannounced usually when I'm doing something else; I don't go looking for them, I just make a picture when they happen.
This collection of pictures, which I continue to add to, are glimpses of everyday scenes that just crop-up unannounced usually when I'm doing something else; I don't go looking for them, I just make a picture when they happen.
This is very different to the considered and often intense approach of my previous work. When taken from their context, 'spliced out' from the bigger picture by the camera's frame, the results can appear comical, absurd - and sometimes, unsettling? They are 'ordinary' situations transformed into something 'else' by framing and view point.
This is very different to the considered and often intense approach of my previous work. When taken from their context, 'spliced out' from the bigger picture by the camera's frame, the results can appear comical, absurd - and sometimes, unsettling? They are 'ordinary' situations transformed into something 'else' by framing and view point.
Inevitably, it became apparent over time that the pictures and how I chose viewpoint, framing & subject matter, continued to reflect something of about my state of mind. There is still potential for personal interpretation on my part and that of a viewer. Like the old psychological ink-blot 'Rorschach test' the pictures can still be 'read into' based on individual experience or state of mind, acting simultaneously as both 'mirrors' of and 'windows' on the world.
Inevitably, it became apparent over time that the pictures and how I chose viewpoint, framing & subject matter, continued to reflect something of about my state of mind. There is still potential for personal interpretation on my part and that of a viewer. Like the old psychological ink-blot 'Rorschach test' the pictures can still be 'read into' based on individual experience or state of mind, acting simultaneously as both 'mirrors' of and 'windows' on the world.
I couldn't escape my shadow but I was able to appreciate the light again.
I couldn't escape my shadow but I was able to appreciate the light again.
Adrift
Annointment
Banana 'phone shopper
English cream tea
Facade
Blanks
Blanks
Bubble girl
Message
Morris man
Jimmi & friends
Photographer
Slope boys
Jump
Mum
Sword boy & mother
Protest
Snappy Mum
Family with 'Stretch Armstrong'
Tall girls
Icarus
Security
Tear drop
Spider boy
Self portrait by myself
Target
Cow Lick
Cow Lick
Woman with pushchair
Window cleaner
Gesture
Reach
Dog
Tent
Growler
All the fun of the fair
Car wash
Car wash
Tales of the Riverbank
Tales of the Riverbank
2020
Jersey 2021
Jersey 2021
Shop window.
Shop window.
Goose
Goose
The old man (fading)
The old man (fading)
Beach Barbie
Beach Barbie