Stillness and Movement II

During my last crit concerning this project it was suggested that I need to make some descisions concerning the photographs I decide to use in my work. I do tend to take rather a lot of photographs and find it very difficult to narrow down the ones that appeal to me. Usually the mass of them that I decide on are a narrowed down selection! But at the same time, I felt that the point of having so many different textures and images was that each one was from a different gravestone, each one representative of a different person. To narrow that down to two or three photos seems to me to defeat the point. So this was an attempt at trying to do something different with them for now.

G20 - day two.

These are some images from the G20 protests taken on April 2nd. Most are from people and organisations protesting other issues not directly related to G20. These were mostly situated near the Excel centre where passionate but peaceful protests were being conducted. Some of these images are also from nearby the Bank of England where the atmosphere was more tense. There was a strong police presence here towards the late afternoon but the atmosphere was quite pleasant until even more policemen appeared and protesters and onlookers were forced back away from the bank down the side streets. Many, including myself, were jostled by the surging crowd and these was a commotion as one youth was escorted away by the police. Although the atmosphere was terse and there was much abuse being directed towards the police force, the situation remained under control and I witnessed none of the violence reported from the day before.

More information on the G20 summit can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2009/g20/default.stm

Stillness and Movement

These are some images from my current project brief. The brief is loosely called 'Stillness and Movement'. I ended up thinking about the physical movement and change in the surface of static things over time. I was originally thinking about photographing the outer surfaces of architecture or the decay of surfaces (like the paint peeling off our bathroom wall). But I pulled out some old photographs of a churchyard wall that I took a few years ago and decided to spend some time in the churchyard next door to me, looking at the textures I came across. I ended up photographing gravestones (as seen below). I wasn't trying to be morbid, they just happened to be appealing textures, but I do find it quite interesting how each gravestone accumulates its own individual look, collection of moss and pattern of erosion over time. It's also curious how the final thing representing the person buried there continues to change and grow and gain character over time, even though the person is no longer there. I found the whole idea quite uplifting!

Medium Format II

So, these are the photographs affected by my improper winding on of the film. I quite like the effect.