left behind

Print from strip of negatives a friend left behind.

pentimento

from 'Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes' Unseen Photograph' Schilt Publishing. This book marks the 40th anniversary of Roland Barthes’ renowned work Camera Lucida (La Chambre Claire) in 2020. Artist Odette England invited more than 200 photography-based artists, writers, critics, curators, and historians from around the world to contribute an image or text that reflects on Barthes’ unpublished snapshot of his mother at age five.

eavesdrop

I have revisited, retitled and reprinted this photograph so many times. My feelings about the day it memorialises are so all-consuming ... I can't be at all objective about it as a photograph. I'd just like to go back in time and hug that boy again.

Before and Through

test print. final size undecided.

beauty, where are you going to?

Tristana, approx 6 x 9 inches.

* asunder

35mm, tape, typewriter ink.