denmark

late addition for ENFANCE(S). 5 Sept to 19 October. Paris.
I will be at the gallery on the 5th. Please come and say hello.

girl. found.

My feelings about photography are changing so much. Images that I dismissed months ago now feel worthwhile and projects I really believed in last week seem trivial this morning. Instead of just working instinctively and intuitively, I find myself worrying about what my production costs will be or what the 'gallery appeal' would be. Worse still, I find myself comparing my work to others. I also worry about repeating myself.
'girl. found.' is from a distinctly uncommercial project I started earlier this summer and later abandoned. Small images in glass mounts. Just as I was getting away from 'mediated' work, I found a collection of slides and worked them into a sort of abstract narrative. Despite the lack of commercial appeal -- or perhaps, because of it -- I am very drawn to this series, particularly this picture. I feel I understand the anonymous girl, the photographer, even the scent of that house, that year, that summer. The tangle of stories connecting them all feels so vivid, so familiar. It is a 'bad' photograph in many ways but, to me, it has a vague and faded beauty, a poignancy and even a physical 'surface' of deterioration that I find very powerful.

twigs

twigs (2013)  35mm cine film.  approx 27cm x 45cm.
no digital processes. film strip simply scanned as found.

whirlpool

whirlpool (2013).  25 x 28 cm.

francis goodman

Constantia Nicolaides' excellent little feature on the life and work of Francis Goodman. His work
is still on display at The National Portrait Gallery. Until 3 November.

doldrums

doldrums  (2012)  25 x 28 cm.

three (wasps)

three (wasps) 2013. 'old school' composite print. approx 10 cm x 11 cm.

anchor tongue

anchor tongue  (2013) 25 x 28 cm. The end of this series.

my father's roses

some of the first pictures i ever took as a boy were of my father's roses. the first super 8 movie i made was all about those same roses -- complete with hand-written subtitles. maybe i was looking for approval, i'm not sure. anyway, the last time i was at my father's house in wisconsin was shortly after he'd died. i took this photograph of the roses that remained in bloom.  (traditional print from 35mm)