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Bysing Wood #2 (2021)
More chalky puffs of yellow from the rapeseed field by Bysing Wood. I always imagine these images as huge, perfectly matte prints behind non-reflective glass on large white walls in big, softly-lit spaces – as… Read more
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Throwback Friday #58 ‘Waffle House’ (2012)
Back in 2012, I went to a conference in Florida. It was an academic sort of affair, but there was a little time on either side to do some sightseeing, include a road trip to… Read more
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MFT #13 Bottles (1936)
Bottles, a Happy Harmonies animated short, directed by Hugh Harman is one of my favourite things. Here’s why. Read more
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Bysing Wood #1 (2021)
The first batch of photographs taken of the big rapeseed field at the edge of Bysing Wood. I know people have mixed feelings about these uncompromising swathes of yellow, and you might observe I’ve been… Read more
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Bysing Wood_Verge (2021)
At the end of last week, at the end of the day, we went out to take in the view of a very large field of rapeseed just on the edge of Bysing Wood. I… Read more
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When I Was A Boy_Beach (2021)
In addition to taking photographs of various pebbles for my Kick-About No.28-inspired short-film, When I Was A Boy I Collected Pebbles From The Beach, I needed some more impressionistic imagery too, images that could speak… Read more
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Placelessness and the Cuckoo’s Egg: on the Closure of UCA Rochester
A few weeks ago, I shared the dispiriting news that the University for the Creative Arts had announced plans to withdraw from Medway, shuttering its campus at Fort Pitt, Rochester, in September 2023. UCA also… Read more
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Throwback Friday #57 The Ossuary, Hythe (2013)
Something macabre for this Friday’s blast-from-the-past, with a series of photographs taken in The Ossuary at St Leonard’s Church, in Hythe. It takes an effort of imagination to look at these collected skulls and keep… Read more
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When I Was A Boy_Pebbles (2021)
When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach was inspired by what can be disappointing about the way wet pebbles plucked from the beach may underwhelm when they’re dry again. It seemed… Read more
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Film: When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach (2021)
Inspired by Howard Sooley’s meditative film, Prospect Cottage, the prompt for the Kick-About No.28, When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach began with a simple enough observation. Living by the sea… Read more
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