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...
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Rest
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...
absent friends
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...
impromptu shoot
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...
Stool – Bed – Chair
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,...
The curse of too many hats
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...
Recreating the wheel
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
Notes on a Photograph
Notes on a Photograph
A Furtive act
I’ve been refused access to a space that could have been one of the linchpins of this project. Whilst galled, I understand the reason for the refusal, although I believe a compromise could have been reached. It brings to light one thing that I had not considered. The...