This photozine is dedicated to Adrian, one of my favourite people, who introduced me to what photography could be.
Where could you go? Where do you already go? What do you count as going somewhere? Are there places you pass through but never consider yourself as going? What do you pass by and just ignore? What do you just dismiss? What do you take for granted? Are there things which are in sight, but which you don't really see? What if you change perspective? If you look up? Down? If you crouch, or stand on a wall? What if you walk round the back or to the side for a view from a different angle? What if you look REALLY CLOSELY? Are there small things and details you might otherwise have missed? Will it actually photograph well? Or is it better to savour this thing without the camera in this instance?
You don't need a fancy camera; my friend Nicola took this on her phone.
The impact of technologies on our relationship with our environment should not be characterised as solely destructive. Rather our relationship with the environment is frequently through technologies.
Exploring our environment with a chosen technology also facilitates creative responses and encourages us to savour and celebrate aspects of our surroundings we might otherwise have taken for granted.
Details of photographs
When taking photos and when looking at them, what can you notice?
1-2. Wisley airfield (abandoned), early 2012 3. Bolder Mere, early 2012
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Colour
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Texture
4-5. Ankerwycke Priory, Runnymede, summer 2012 6. Avon riverside, Bristol, sometime in 2013
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Shape
7. Stokes Croft, Bristol, sometime in 2013
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Light
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Shade
8-10. Barcelona, September 2013 11. Northernhay Gardens, Exeter, late autumn 2014
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Pattern
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Contrast
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Layers
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Interactions
What else?
12. Brunel Runnymede campus (abandoned), summer 2012 13. Weston-super-Mare, summer 2013 14. Charleston, SC, December 2014 Portrait of Adrian also at Wisley airfield, early 2012 Photographer: Francis Myerscough
Screenshots from Dziga Vertov's film s kinoapparatom, 1929)
Man With a Movie Camera (Chelovek