Sunday, 13 December 2009
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Between The Lines
Curated by Sue Andrews. Contributions from Sue Andrews, Mick Williamson, Melanie Manchot, Paul Hill, Tom Hunter, Kathryn Faulkner and Fiona Yaron-field.
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Focus Group 1. 1st Dec'09
Memories of Childhood 1963, first of two focus groups. The Union Club, Soho, London.
The first of two focus groups dedicated to the study of one of my images. I am looking forward to compiling the information into some form of an essay in January! This is a short extract of a 90minute meeting. VERY illuminating.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Saturday, 31 October 2009
“I am intrigued as to how past experiences impact on our lives in the present and how my past informs my view of the world.”
“My present project depicts a series of memories from childhood. The work exposes these early experiences, giving them expression and form, which for many years had been repressed. This photographic exploration of constructed tales along with text creates a naive and yet nostalgic look at my past.”
“This photographic exploration while being a type of self portraiture, as I am also the subject in the frame, also challenges sentimental images of childhood from this time and how powerful the use of photography can explore such personal issues.”
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
The Art of Dying#1
Sigmund Freud wrote ‘our own death is indeed quite unimaginable, and whenever we make the attempt to imagine it we can perceive that we really survive as spectators…. At the bottom of this nobody believes in his own death…. In the unconscious everyone of us is convinced of our own immortality.’ Freud also argues that the need for survival and the knowledge of our ultimate fate creates high levels of anxiety.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Saturday, 1 August 2009
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
John Edwards
I visited my good friend John today in hospital.
I have much to thank him for.
His cancer has returned, but the news isn't all bad. John holds a portrait I took of him in 2007 when he was diagnosed and operated on last time.
He 'marks' my contact sheet with his immutable style, this is how he feels today in 2009.
Monday, 29 June 2009
Memories of Childhood 1963
“My work is emotionally very personal. Extracting ideas from my past experiences that may have only recently come to the surface. Some fuelled by anger and frustration of events around me, others sought from a more distant time offering perhaps a sense of regret and loss. Getting deeper into my inner self as a way of expressing my feelings, by way of illustrating incidents in my past that have moulded the way I relate to the world.”
“The process and execution of these ideas has been both exciting and hugely cathartic.”
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Monday, 1 June 2009
Friday, 29 May 2009
Loss&Shame: Memories of Childhood 1963
1963 "I prayed and prayed, please God don't let me die."
Death is not the greatest loss. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Monday, 30 March 2009
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Last Day at Work
On 22nd July 2005 at 09.24 Juan Charles de Menezes began his last journey from his home in Scotia Rd to Stockwell tube station, London, where he was shot dead. These are the cameras that Juan passed on his last journey. Behind these cameras are the people who watched over and protected him on that journey. Behind these cameras and following Juan were the people who contributed to the decision that he should die on that day.
Where Do We Go When We Die? Day 3
Leonard Ingram Contd...
'You will miss the whole point of having lived. You will moss the 'true' meaning and purpose of life itself, because life and death are deeply involved with each other; they are not two separate phenomena. The journey and the goal are not separate- the journey has meaning only in relationship to the goal.
'You will miss the whole point of having lived. You will moss the 'true' meaning and purpose of life itself, because life and death are deeply involved with each other; they are not two separate phenomena. The journey and the goal are not separate- the journey has meaning only in relationship to the goal.
Redemption
Redemption: The act of saving, or being saved fron sin, evil or error.The letter is an honest description of a womans life with a man she is in love with in the throes of addiction. The letter is addressed to the counsellor treating her lover.
This project is not about drug addiction, but about pardon, exoneration and absolution, the power of forgiveness.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Where Do We Go When We Die? Day 2
Leonard Ingram. Cont.
And the greatest calamity that has happened to human intelligents is that we are in denial about death. Being in denial of the reality of death means you will miss out life's greatest mystery.
Last Day At Work
A third of the worlds population of CCTV cameras are in the UK. That's one camera for every fourteen people.
On July 22nd 2005 at 09:24 a plumber began his last journey to work from his home in Scotia Rd, south London to the Tube station at Stockwell. Surveillance officers observing the address saw Jean Charles De Menezes emerge from the communal entrance of the block.
These are the cameras that Jean Charles passed on his last journey.
Behind these cameras are the people who watched over him and protected him and all of us on that day. Were the people who contributed to the decision that Jean Charles should die at 10:07 that day?
Where Do We Go When We Die? Day 1
Leonard Ingram.
'The greatest mystery in life is not live itself, but death. Death is the culmination and blossoming of life. In death, the whole of one's life is summed up; in death you complete life's journey. Life is simply a pilgrimage and journey towards death. From the very moment of your birth, the process of dying starts; already you are moving towards death.'
100 Yds From Lenin
'Depending on your generation, the people of the former Soviet Union have to love or hate living close to Lenin. To some, things have got worse since Glasnost, to some opportunities have come their way and to others the same people have stayed dominant. To most citizens the change to Western Society has not been all that it was cracked up to be'.
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