Man Smoking 2

Man Smoking

A series from the bus station. Would these images be stronger in black and white? Sometimes black and white can become rather relentless, and it often seems a lazy way to designate a photo as "art", without adding any other specific qualities to it.

Bus station

This place is full of Steinbeckian characters. It's a brutalist building, very generously proportioned, but it manages to sustain the seediness that seems everywhere to characterise bus stations.

Ruins

I shall re-visit this place and see if I can get more images later in the week.

Photography

Here are some recent photos. I shall be concentrating on photography for the next week.

I think the thing that photography might be best at, for me, is detail and I want to use it to explore the gothic. By this I don't mean tombstones and valhallas- by gothic I mean an intimacy with the strange and unknown.

Work Not in Progress

I've reached an impasse with The Garden City, and the method of working that I used for it.

So I'm going to take a few paces back and try to think of another project or another technical approach.

Work in progress

A monotype in process, and then drying in the rack.