Bleak

These were taken during November 2011 using a Holga 135BC and Fuji Neopan 400 B&W film. It was a quiet, bleak and unbelievably cold late afternoon. That's essentially what I was trying to capture.

One from down Kelham Island area

I was going for the whole vertigo effect with this shot. It's a weird one to post I guess but for me it seems a satisfying image.

Taken with my bomb-proof 40D & a 50mm f/1.4 lens

Suffolk Coast Early 2012

These were captured during a very cold visit to the Suffolk coast during January 2012. For those interested, they were taken using a Smena 8m (a mass-produced old Soviet camera.) From memory I used Velvia colour reversal film and cross-processed it in C41.

The Suffolk coast will always be special to me as I spent endless days a child playing on exactly the shores pictured. I remember my cousin's sheer trauma after burying and subsequently losing his favourite Thundercats figure somewhere on Lowestoft beach. It was awful! I was only small but vividly remember the shrieking being amplified when we told we couldn't spend any more time looking and were bundled in the car for home.

Hatching a new blog

So then. This is a fresh start. My last and first blog was a mix of new photographic work dumped on top of posts relating to MA work from 2010. The new, informal style didn't sit well with the older, obligatory 'academic' posts and there was a weird sense of conflict. Hence the need to 'switch off' the old one and start over.

I plan to keep text to a minimum unless some images are absolutely crying out for firmer, in-depth context. The central point to undertaking a repository of work such as this, is for the images themselves to resonate on differing levels with differing viewers. Too much text clouds your instinctive responses and i'm keen for you to interpret my images however you like. 

Of course a small amount of text is necessary and I will occasionally add in some of my fleeting thoughts about certain images, capture techniques and processes.

I've got stacks of images produced since leaving education in 2010 so I do need to sift through them to post with an element of cohesion.

For now, the opening shot below is one of my favourite ones captured on the Suffolk coast.


Aaron