ANDY NORMAN
GRAVEL
INTRODUCTION
This folio contains photographs taken over a period of two years at disused gravel workings at the tiny village of Frogmore in Hertfordshire, just north of London, England. Emptied of small stones for building materials, the “gravel pits” are now used for leisure – especially fishing and dog walking - by the local community. The deep workings are filled with water and form a series of small lakes. The surrounding wasteland is planted with trees and nature is recovering the area - repopulating it with reeds , weeds and brambles The photographs are part of a series exploring the photographer’s local area to see, in the words of Stephen Shore “what it looks like photographed”. The work shows the potential of focused attention on a small, arguably undistinguished, place and demonstrates that landscape photography need not rely on massive vistas and exotic locations for success. It is a companion volume to “When the Trees Sing” which takes a similar approach to an area of woodland a couple of miles away. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Andy Norman is a Hertfordshire based photographer. Born in 1958, he has been taking photographs , on and off, for over thirty years and has recently begun sharing them with an audience beyond family and friends. He was made a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society in 2009. TECHNICAL NOTE The pictures in this collection have been made using Nikon digital cameras and software.
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