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The Kick-About #67 ‘El Anatsui’
Our previous Kick-About was an explosive affair, as Turner’s Mount Vesuvius in Eruption re-surfaced the land, sea and sky with glowing skeins of lava and fired our imaginations. No less spectacular are the sculptural installations… Read more
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Throwback Friday #133 ‘Rhus typhina’
These photographs of the glorious foliage of a Staghorn sumac tree were taken in the garden belonging to my late grandmother at some point in the mid-2000s – can’t remember when exactly, though I remember… Read more
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Ash Crowd #3 (2022)
A concluding set of photographs produced for our recent Vesuvius-inspired Kick-About – a crowd of ash-entombed individuals just passing the time. Read more
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Ash Crowd #2 (2022)
The prompt for The Kick-About No.66 was Turner’s 1817 painting of Mount Vesuvius in spectacular eruption… which inspired this response from me; a casual gathering of ash-encased bystanders left pondering the apocalypse. Read more
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Throwback Friday #132 ‘Hearth Lights’ (2016)
A showing here of one of the series of photographs taken at Number 351 back in the summer of 2016. At this point of my all-nighter in this old abandoned house I was sleep-deprived, but… Read more
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Ash Crowd #1 (2022)
A few points of reference going on in these images produced for The Kick-About No.66, as inspired by Turner’s 1817 painting, Mount Vesuvius In Eruption: of course, those ash-encased bodies of Pompeii’s unlucky inhabitants, entombed… Read more
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The Kick-About #66 ‘Vesuvius’
In contrast to the sombre and sepulchral offerings of our previous Kick-About together, this week’s collection of new works made in a short time is a more explosive affair. Inspired by Turner’s painterly apocalypse, enjoy… Read more
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Throwback Friday #131 More Shunned Things (2021)
The spooky season is over, but for this week’s retrospective, I’m sharing three images produced back in October 2021 for my ‘Portfolio of Horrors’, The Children Of The Night. These self-portraits didn’t make the cut,… Read more
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Shunned Things (2022)
Some Halloween-inspired fun and games – the photoshoot that inspired this ‘picture book’. Sweet dreams. Read more
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Short Story: Even The Most Shunned Of Things (2022)
This time last year, I had huge amounts of fun producing a series of self-portraits that lent heavily into the tricking and treating of Halloween. Entitled The Children Of The Night, they emulated old horror… Read more
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