The Coast of Light series, June 2012 In the summer of 2009 I took this photograph of one of the markers lining the cliff-top path, near Cala del Aceite, which stand like skittles on a conveyor belt. This Atlantic coastline is exposed to extreme weather conditions at certain times of the year. It is battered by storms and also subject to torrential rain, meaning the cliffs are similutaneously undercut and washed out to sea.
A sequence taken on an early morning walk on the cliff-top paths near Cala del Aceite, near the town of Conil in Andalucia.
A gallery of photographs from my tour of Chelsea Fringe Gardens. The Fringe, in its inaugural year, is a new garden festival, directed journalist and author, Tim Richardson. From their website : “The Chelsea Fringe festival is a brand new initiative, entirely volunteer-run in its first year. It’s all about harnessing and spreading some of the excitement and energy that fizzes around gardens and gardening. The idea is to give people the freedom and opportunity to express themselves through the medium of plants and gardens, to open up possibilities and to allow full participation. Entirely independent of the RHS Chelsea […]
A few weeks ago a friend of mine, artist Caroline Underwood, asked me if I could send her five photographs of my favourite place in nature. To be used in her new participatory project, this is an open invitation to anyone who might produce imagery. This is difficult request, as I’ve taken photographs of so many beautiful places around the world. But after some thought, I felt it had to be somewhere I visit on a regular basis. I’ve always lived in a city, and apart from a year in Bristol, that city has been London. I suppose some kind […]
In February I recieved an email inviting me to submit a photograph to an exhibition. Photographers get these all the time, and as many are from commercial operations, I very nearly didn’t give it the time of day. But as one of my images, 43 Gardeners’ Hands, had already been selected, it caught my eye. I read the small print and after a couple of emails with the organizers from Orticola di Lombardia, it turned out to be a genuine and very well planned show entitled ‘Small Garden’ in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano. It is part of an […]
Earlier in the week I had the opportunity to spend a day wondering around Milan after attending the ‘Small Garden’ exhibition at Galleria D’arte Moderna di Milano. Left: Hotel Brasil Right: Parco Sempione Milan, Creperia Vecchiabrera Left: Bed, Parco Sempione Right: Louis Vuitton shop, Montenapoleone Fuel station, Via Marina Left: Montenapoleone, Milan Right: Disused restaurant Hotel Brasil Traffic lights, Via Bellotti
Some test shots from this afternoon, possibly for later use in gravure printing. Left: Viburnum Right: cherry Left: Bay Right: Forget me nots
I can’t exactly remember when I first came across polymer gravure printing. It is a modern variant of the copperplate gravure process that the photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen used to great effect in the early 20th century. Maybe it was the book of Mr Coburn’s work I was given whilst at college. All I know is that it has been driving me nuts for at least two years, as several attempts haven’t got me very far. Two weeks ago I attended a three day course at Rabley Drawing Gallery in Marlborough, run by printer Martyn Grimmer with […]
Left: Bay of Pigs. Right: Bay of Pigs Museum Left: Bay of Pigs. Right: Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs Left: Organic smallholding, Viñales. Right: Lagoon, Trinidad Left: Che Guevara memorial, Santa Clara. Right: Mural, Havana Left: Havana. Right: Viñales Hotel chalet, Soroa Left: Havana. Right: Havana
Left: Apartment Havana. Right: Room, Viñales Havana Room, Viñales Apartment, Havana Left: Balcony, Trindad. Right: Flag, Trinidad Apartment, Havana Left: Baseball stadium, Viñales. Right: Che Guevara Memorial Viñales Left: Trinidad. Right: Havana Bedroom, Viñales Left: Pet, Viñales. Right: Botanical garden, Cienfuegos Garden Shrine for San Lazoro, Viñales. Left: Bay of Pigs museum. Right: Museum, Trinidad Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs