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Busy Summer

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Along with the heatwave I have a wave of interesting projects on the go.

“Felixstowe’s Changing Faces” will be an exhibition in collaboration with Felixstowe Museum. It is my pleasure to recreate some of their archive of historic photos, in the modern day. So far I have shot dock workers, wild swimmers and ice-cream vendors. It has been mind-blowing to contemplate the past verses the present within the frame of my old medium format film camera. I have issued local call-outs for participation and have had generous responses from the local community. I can’t wait to tell you all about the experience, at the exhibition Launch Night when I will be giving an Artist’s Talk on 18/9/26. Contact me below if you would like to attend.

Research at the museum with David and Mark
Shooting with thanks to Rags, Kevin and James at the docks

Talking of talks, I gave a talk to an audience of about 80 people at the Blackheath Arts Society last week. It was well received, and it really helped me crystallise my thoughts on what I do, and why I do it. Expanding from photography into other art forms, I have often found myself feeling somewhere between a crazy artist and a mad scientist! But now I see the links and it makes sense. I should take a leaf out of my own book and embrace the danger as I stretch out of my comfort zones!

photo by @miya.otsuka.design

My passion for the historic Cyanotype process is self-evident, and in August there is a unique opportunity to study on an in-depth course with me. We’ll cover mixing , coating, using plants, using negatives, botanical toners, trouble shooting…

Course info here

BOOK HERE

Keep an eye out on my Workshops page and instagram/facebook for 4 free workshops I have coming upon 14, 19, 28, 31 August at Christchurch Community Garden in Greenwich. We will be creating art with natural materials in this beautiful setting.

Contact me below if require any details.

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Just Me and a Lonely Weed in the Darkroom

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…. and 4000+ likes on Instagram!

This week I found myself with a short time slot in the darkroom. I’d been held up by my Tax Return, and by the time I arrived at the darkroom there just wasn’t time to get all my leaves and negatives ready for another demanding printing session. We are restricted to solo-use slots in our shared darkroom now, and since Covid there is lots of cleaning and airing to be done between users.

On my walk in, I’d brushed into a little weed growing out of the payment. The ‘daily walks’ have made me hyper-vigilant of Nature, and I know every crack in the pavement and every new weed in my area.

an honour to have my prints shown on the Ilford website

All week I had been thinking about Mirror Universes. I set up some small trays of chemicals and put on a Podcast about Charge Parity Violation. It was all about how, if there was a mirrored universe, there would not be exact symmetry. It was an absolute shocker! And while my brain was wrestling with the details, my hands were freed to dance with this weed and with the light coming from the enlarger, and finally to slosh in and out of the chemical trays.

Often I work the other way around. I have music on and I focus my brain on the maths of exposure times, temperatures and grades etc.

I was thinking about Matter and Anti-Matter, about Positive and Negative. It came out.

From the isolation of the darkroom, just me and that little weed made a post that Ilford shared and around 4K peope ‘liked’. What an uplifting way to reach out from the darkness.

When I get time, I will frame one of these photograms and additional to my newfangled sales section.