movement
this is the world seen from the edge of our vision, the sidelong glance, a world absorbed almost sub-consciously in passing, capturing aspects of urban and rural landscapes as the viewer moves through them
sidelong: A series of affectionate photographic studies of the people and landscapes seen ‘in passing’ on the train journey from Barton and while exploring the popular Wakes Week destination town of Cleethorpes.
bandol to toulon: travelling along the french mediterranean coast - urban and country - walking through the city
zone 69 brun
suc toulon
toulon: flower painter
toulon: eandp holland 1967
toulon: illistttte bikes
el prat to barcelona: into barcelona via train and bus - arriving at barceloneta at sunset - walking the city
cloudcomb
barcelona: kiss of sunset
barcelona: sant pau montage
barcelona: muralia
barcelona: sagrada light
fiumicino to trastevere: from rome airport to view above the city
red bowl
3 hats muratella
abstract magliana
power magliana
rome: janiculum constitution
rome: popes curious cabinet
rome: talking trevi
rome: mighty word
rome: flaminia marmite
other places: france, london, the north
dunkirk: plantwork FRAC
dunkirk: lollipop missed
dunkirk: green brolly beach
dunkirk: lungsFRAC
beverley:WI
carshalton: wandle-side
heroic headingley
kingston: thames narrows
lambeth: walking leake street
wandsworth: clapham view
movement: about the work
There is something intangibly exciting about travelling whether passing through unknown landscapes or seeing familiar places from different vantage points. Moving through space stimulates our ‘nomadic’ gene, excites our travel-tuned nerve-endings, watching architecture and landscape transform – the planes and spaces shifting over time – developing our mental mapping of the world around us. Travel is in many ways a meditative act.
As a photographer I have tried many times to capture this emotion but all too often all I capture is the place not the journey, the travelling. The processive images I have included here are the closest I have come yet and I think they do show that dynamic view of the world seen from the edge of our vision, the sidelong glance, a world absorbed almost sub-consciously in passing. For me these images are somehow able to evoke this excitement stimulating the deep nomadic sensibility and bring it to the surface.
The processive photography technique I am using utilises progressively overlapping shots to capture aspects of urban and rural landscapes as the photographer moves through them. The motion of the camera facing sideways produces repetitive, fragmented and distorted pictures that convey a dynamic sense of movement in the still image: a series of moments compressed and smeared into a single still image: the vague and fragmented memory of a journey, repetitive yet barely observed. A smear of sensation.