The images, opinions and occasional ravings of a photographer and PHD Candidate.
Three people trapped in cars crushed by a tractor. Traumatised walking wounded. Fire crews applying the jaws of life, paramedics triaging the wounded as people scream in the background. As you may have guessed from my rather offhand treatment of a serious topic, I was attending a simulated incident.
The thing to bear in mind however is that the platform from which I am photographing will never be still – it skims lightly over the top of a moving surface Mobilis in Mobili. If I stop paddling then the current will take me where it will, or the river’s flow, or the wind. There’s times I can stop that – hang onto a handy rock or tree root, or ground myself on a sandbar for a minute – but there are others where I can’t.
The next phase of plan MA comes to fruition. Some things lead naturally to others, and the combination of portraiture and film photography that’s been my labour since last October has lead me toward the corner of the photographic world that we call medium format. “What’s medium format?” Query the uninitiated (actually they’re mostly changing … Continue reading Misadventures In Medium Format
I never thought I’d be photographing sports as part of a fine art MA. That’s not because of the sports, it’s because I never thought I’d be doing a fine art MA. Some of the first pictures I ever took were sports photos. When I was dragged out of bed to stand on touchlines while … Continue reading Sports Photography As Meditation
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