Thursday 29 April 2010

Metaphor

I'd been walking around Thailand when I got to these train tracks. Left to the fork in the tracks or right to the straight and narrow. I have to admit, I didn't miss the irony for how relevant this felt to me.


Woman

I took a strange fancying to this woman. I don't know what it was but I wanted to photograph her.




Wednesday 28 April 2010

Update

This is just a little unedited snippet of my last month.




































A really nice memory.



Time

The speed of things interests me at the moment. I had a conversation with Joel yesterday about Robert Doisneau work - 'Three seconds of Eternity.'

I think there are a lot if ideas around this one piece. For the first time in a while I feel quite inspired. I have never thought to use the speed of the camera to create this idea of time and space. Making mass photos and realising that the realm of time you are dealing with only adds up to 3 seconds.

Makes it all seem so easy when you think your only dealing with 250/s.
Technically, I have no excuse for not producing work or finding those photos that spark a moment. Of a day I get 86,400 seconds of which I could take 216,000,00 photos at 1/250.
Why can I not find the time again?

Monday 26 April 2010

Back to NYC

I am back in NYC after about 6 weeks out the country. I have been really shit at shooting which seems to be a theme for now. I went to Thailand so I have some shots from there - need to go pick them up tonight.

As always have come back with a renewed sense of restarting this and sticking to it, so hopefully I will find a way to accomplish that this time.

I've been taking to meditating more recently, which really does help to clear my head. I swear I'm leading a double life at the moment. When I'm in Gosport, it's all about social life and going out and then I come back to NY and its all work and personal development. Quite envious of the time when I had both.

But at least being back here has put my bum in gear again. I see so much work being produced around me and it does at least allow me a perspective into where i fit in and what I need to do to get going.
In the UK I feel like I'm a bit senseless and completely unmotivated. Quite scary coz most of the time I don't realise it till I'm back here.

Hopefully if the photos I get later are any good they'll be on here and I'l have something to post.

Rant over.