Gold Paint and Biro

Fuzzy Hat Girl

Old Man- Biro and Photoshop

Want to Cross-Process

This is a photo taken with a Bronica ETR, using Fujifilm Colour 120. The colours look a little unusual because I played about with the levels in Photoshop. Was hoping to cross-process the film using E6 rather than the usual C-41, unfortunately I wasn't able to find anywhere in York that could cross-process, but found a lab that will do it in Birmingham, will put the next one in there. In the meantime, tweaking the levels gave me an image close to what I hope to achieve.

Bags of Fun

Recently I've been trying out some different graphic styles, using brown paper bags as the canvas. Each image is drawn free-hand using marker-pen. The first bag is for a friend who was leaving, the second, as you can guess, is for a holiday (the image below it is what's written on the reverse), and the third is just a picture of a bag, on a bag. Enjoy.

Holiday Over

Just got back from holiday and realised how sporadic my blogposts appear to be. Took a lot of photos while I was there, mostly tourist shots of family etc. but did take some underwater disposable cameras, will be getting the photos developed tomorrow and will hopefully have something worth posting. Other work, ideas and photos to follow. Keep watching.

Camera Lucida, Stress Positions and Photography as Procedure

I read Roland Barthe's Camera Lucida last week, twice. I didn't understand all of it but some of it was quite clear. Proustian referrences sometimes baffle me a bit but on the whole I could absorb the message. There were several things in the book that interested me, chiefly, how Barthes mentions that early photographs were an almost surgical procedure, requiring the models to sit still for stretches of forty-five minutes in bright sunlight. This element of pain or discomfort coupled with Barthes view that the photograph is intrinsically linked to death intrigued me. It's a possible avenue for exploration, either through a kind of 'endurance' photograph, wherein the shutter could be open for a set amount of time, say ten minutes, whilst the sitter must not move, without the use of an armature. Or, either a video or photography observation of a subject attempting to 'endure', the typically Catholic punishment of holding ones arms out crucifix-style whilst hefting a bible in each hand is a possibility, this treatment of the 'endurance' is also strongly linked to the idea of stress-positions, an ethically questionable method of non-marking torture linked with the interrogation of prisoners of war in Iraq. (The somwhat cartoony-image below is in lieu of some of the more graphic images.)