I was looking at Ori Gerschts work awhile ago. In his book, he takes the journey the polish jews did on their way to the concentration camps. As a series of images, I highly recommend them to anyone. They both highly mundane, yet their significance transforms them into something far more moving.

I started to think about Journeys. When i was traveling in Australia i did the red eye greyhound bus run from Sydney to Melbourne. I had no ipod, no book and no one to talk to, so i spent all evening and the morning looking out of the window (you cant sleep of those buses no matter how hard you try) watching the landscape whiz by. I cant remember any specific features, yet i have a good timeline of the journey, the general 'gist' if you will. This got me thinking on how we experience journeys, as a a series of memorable events, or a smooth timeline? This led to the image above. Twenty three photos from a trip to the coast. The journey isnt important, but rather the image contains every feature of that journey which gives me that 'gist', if that makes sense, but instead of showing them in a linear left to right sequence, they have simply been combined into one image, an average, or a medium (if you prefer maths). Now if i could only think of some interesting journeys to take...

I have too much time on my hands. Walking along the river the other day, and i became interested in the opposite bank. No idea why, so i went back and took some digital snaps. Theres something i really like about them, but what i dont know for sure

Quiet Corners

Life is good until you get a fogged pack of film. An angry email is working its way towards Fuji now

Photoshop - Something which has been bouncing around inside my head, and this is the first of many experiments, whilst it try and get back into the idea of image manipulation on a large scale. The question at the moment is whether to embrace emerging technology (CGI) or go with using image banks and paying. Each has its ups and downs i suppose...

Anyhow, don't look too close at the trees! This took about 90 minutes, with serious room for improvement, although its a good start. The original image was shot on 5x4 (thus the tiny depth of field) and the explosion image was grabbed from the internet. Its a total fluke that the lighting in both images matches up slightly, but as i said, Cutting around leaves gets a tad boring!

Any thoughts, send them on a postcard. Oh, and the project is about new theories of the sublime, in response to Gene Ray's "Notes on the Politics of Fear".

(image file size is quite large - if on dial up, get a better internet connection you klutz)

Theory...

and practice sometimes don't meet. This was a good idea, but the practical results I'm not to sure about.

Its been a while...

since i last posted on here. I wont bore you with the details, i have no idea who visits anymore. Recently, i came across some images by Rodchenko, created in the 1930, where he had been asked to sensor out the sitter, due to Stalins regime. The images themselves began to fascinate me, or rather, the idea of the images. It assumed that by someone how eradicating the visual representation of that person, that in turn would wipe them from a national memory. The persons in question were of course killed, but this final step seems to me to be as significant. A crude doctoring of the image. This got me thinking about present government censorship, usually under the guise of 'terrorism'. Im all up for fighting anyone imposing their belief system through violence, but not at the expense of free will. Finally, what interested me the most about Rodchenko's images, were the traces left behind, wether it be a shape of face, a nose, or rather the memory of the deleted. It always remained

OLD.....

I am currently going through the epic mission of scanning all my old slide film in since changing to a Mac. This one cropped up. Rad trick, rather lacking photo....