We learnt pretty fast that you just go with the flow - when you cross the street, you walk like an elephant - slow and steady, don’t stop, look forward, keep moving, and trust that scooters and cars will either stop or move around you. Except Buses - they don’t Stop. You run.
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Room with a view - Seoul.
Soul in Seoul - Popular Music and K-pop, book title. Seoul. South Korea.
…when out of the blue came an almighty roar. Deafening shouting through a loudspeaker shattered the peacefulness that we had become so accustomed to. We thought it was an over zealous preacher in the nearby church. We went in search of this noisy rhetoric. It wasn’t coming from the church, it was out on the main wide streets - a very, very loud political demonstration. I had to chase it down…
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During Lockdown it feels like time has unravelled. For many, our daily organised routines have been dismantled as we have been released from the metronomic ticking of the clock. Our lives have slowed down, the deadlines have gone and the divisions of the day have become fluid. I feel there is a new sense of time and, in parts, I’m enjoying this freedom and hope to take a piece of this into the new ‘normal’.
Conversations in Lockdown
Continuing my Lockdown series using the 250 Land Camera and instant peel apart film.
The next triptych series is Conversations in Lockdown.
Newly Acquired Lockdown Skills.
As Lockdown continues so too has my passion for the Polaroid. I have been getting to grips with the 250 Land Camera as well as my SX70 and One Step to produce, I suppose, a form of journal created during this pandemic. The work covers a series of triptychs as well as some good old experimentation and play. I really don’t know where it is heading, but it’s certainly keeping me occupied.
Developing the idea of A New Commodity (see last post), I created four triptychs. Whilst the actual photographs are rather interesting 4x6 images, it’s the negatives that I love. Grainier, rougher and greyer - a perfect reflection of our present times. The scanner adds an extra dimension and unpredictability as it emphasis the light streaks caused either from the removal of the film from the camera or from peeling the film apart - both requiring a certain knack that I haven’t, it appears, quite mastered..
These are my newly acquired Lockdown Skills-set. I have become proficient in Commerce and Economics, Hairdressing (both scissors and clipper skills), Growing veg - in an effort to be self-sufficient (can one live on rocket alone?) and finally Dentistry - a broken tooth from day one of Lockdown did not bode well …
Familial
‘Familial’ is the second chapter of My Adopted Family project.
Summer Picnic. Wakefield Park. Yorkshire
This series reflects on the prerequisite of being photographed for the family records. Different genres - births, events, holidays and special moments each caught in an image to be shared amongst our nearest and dearest. Personally selected, identified and labelled then presented in an album. This record of time thus becoming a narrative for generations to come.
Rock Pooling. Lancing Beach. Sussex
Snow at Devil’s Dyke. Brighton
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