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"Not Applicable Eyes", Dungeness B
I had a moment of madness earlier in the year, and had a bit of a crisis about my Polaroids - mostly because whenever I exhibit my stuff is so tiny that it takes hundreds to fill a space... so I tried to come up with some pieces that still kept a bit of "me" in them (desolate places, tiny people in landscapes, etc), but would work in a gallery and not get lost...
After a failed attempt at a huge landscape shot on PX680, and tearing my hair out over it, I settled on trying to incorporate many of the things my photography is about into one piece. This is a sibling piece to the much bigger Balfron Tower piece. This actually came about accidentally, because everything worked together so perfectly...
Originally I had intended to include much more of Dungeness in the big image, but instead settled for little parts of beach and horizon, ignoring the power station altogether. But something about this just 'worked' and so one evening I laid off the big one, put my hunched back aside, and concentrated on this.
I am not sure which I prefer to be honest. This is smaller, less impressive perhaps, but captures more of what my work is about, and more of the essence of one place. And we all know how much I love Dungeness...
This time this is an A3 sized Polaroid emulsion lift montage/collage/mosa ic, or whatever you want to call it!
The title comes from a physical description taken of Emma when we were stopped and searched by the police for trespassing on power station property. When we were let go, and drove off in the car I noticed that they couldn't work out her eye colour and wrote "N/A" under 'EYES'. A blind driver, wonders never do cease...
The rest of the piece was shot in Whitehall, Whitstable (Kent), Ireland, and London's South Bank.
Shooting these composites put so much stress on my cameras that my 600SE lens locked and is now at the doctors, my 180 died completely, and I had to fashion a working camera from a 250, and two broken 180s and a broken 195. STRESS!
Shotdate | -location:
2011
July
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Camera
| Filmtype:
180
| 669
(expired)
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