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I completed this shoot at a local client’s office. Ironically they are my client, and these are their client waiting rooms, so I’ve never had cause to sit in either of these spaces. These are waiting rooms in a Solicitors’ Office. As such I like the idea that the...

The response to the 'rest area' photograph gave me pause. I really liked it, but didn't expect others to, and given how well received it was, I then went out to replicate it. This is the rest area for a retail establishment I know well. These pictures were taken while...

Taken while on assignment, before beginning this course. These chairs occupy a raised dais in a hospice’s lounge. absent friends Do you need to know that this is the lounge in a hospice in order to understand it? Does this change the image or change your understanding...

Yesterday, I was once again refused access to a space that I thought could lend weight to my project. Access is becoming an issue. On my way back I stopped in unannounced at a friendly establishment and photographed the waiting area, rest area, and office. The image...

Taken in keeping with a new furtive energy, again allowing for an immutable and impersonal chair, one that occupies a space, to be imbued with a circumstantial connotation. That connotation is then transferred to the absent occupier. Stool - Bed - Chair In this case,...

It appears I'm wrestling with a need to over-communicate, to give too much away. One of my final shots from my recent walkabout was to take this picture in a pharmacy. Pharmacy Waiting Area - with signage I've begun considering the way in which a space can define a...

I thought I was unaware of Mishka Henner’s ‘No Man’s land’ when I made Sex-Worker’s Chair. I’m now sure I saw it at the Photographers Gallery

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A collection of recent images and the questions they raise. Out hunting for chairs - Account Manager’s Chair Shooting the account manager’s chairs was relatively easy. I sought permission to shoot in the store and, preferring the backdrop and palate of this particular...

I wanted to produce an image with a clearer relationship to the style of Bernd & Hilla Becher. While I believe this is not a workable way of completing the project as a whole, either logistically or on the basis of content, it felt like a avenue worth exploring...

Over the summer I shot some Washi F, a fluorographic X-Ray film originally from Eastern Europe, and cut and sprocketed for 35mm. I've drafted some thoughts on the film here: http://jamesgreenoff.com/washi/ but thought it could be interesting for a project later on,...

After initial feedback from the group in response to Photographer & Author I became aware that I was in danger of producing a typology of office furniture, that if I wasn’t careful the images would be too similar, and to “lack a reason to turn the page”. I was...

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Having consumed the Typologies of Bernd & Hilla Becher and August Sander’s Face of Our Time almost simultaneously, I have viewed each from the perspective of the other. Typologies / Blast Furnaces - Bernd & Hilla Becher While both build a typology through...

August Sander - Face of Our Time One of the things that stuck me about Face in our time is the looseness of the rules applied particularly when viewed in comparison to Bernd & Hilla Becher’s Typologies. Sander’s subjects are photographed in groups and alone, posed...

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Bernd & Hilla Becher in conversation with Michel Guerrin, in Le Monde p23 - May 23 2001 Quoted from Armin Zweite's Introduction to Typologies by Bernd & Hilla Becher MIT Press 2004 (Page 7)

A proposal for AD7801/A11 - Establishing Practice "We will leave our mark, for we are people, not cities"Eugene Ionesco - The Chairs1997 Faber & Faber p55 I’m going to create a series of images of empty chairs. These will be work chairs, belonging to real people...

Daido Moriyama - How I Take Photographs For the longest time I struggled to find an affinity for Daido Moriyama’s work. It feels odd or unsettling to say that out loud, but much of it left me cold. The way he works feels reminiscent of mid-century automatism, (the...