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Too Well Spoken
In one of those directionless states of youth and looking for something different, I saw an advertisement in a local paper for a trainee scaffolder, and so I called the number. A man with a thick Kent accent answered, and a brief conversation ensued. I’ve always felt drawn to scaffolding. I guess this is probably…
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Evoking the memory of slavery in Ayana V Jackson’s ‘Prototype/Phenotype, 2012’ or Ayana, Max and Roland meet at the Bar du Mémoire…..
This is my dissertation for my MA Photography which I undertook at the University of Brighton. Let me know what you think? PDF – Dissertation
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Elemental Memory – Remembering Fire
Before I set out some thoughts about elemental memory and postmemory, it is worth taking a step back and stating what postmemory is. Simply put, postmemory describes the phenomenon of the traumatic events of the past living on through those living in the present. ‘With it’s roots firmly in thinking about the trauma of the…
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Book Review – The Island by Robert Darch
The Island, the most recent book by Robert Darch, is something of a paradox. It is at once bleak, but at the same time uplifting, perhaps in the way that Bach’s melancholic Cello Suite No.1 resonates with the deepest emotions whilst retaining an essential optimism. Darch opens his book with a foreword revealed in the…
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Saturday 29 October 2022 Elemental Memory
I’m a student of memory, and that’s not unusual for a photographer. Photography is about capturing a moment which will not come back, and making it in to something that can be revisited. No wonder there’s so much theory and writing about it, it’s what Barthes (and Sebald for that matter) is all about. The…
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Sunday 23 October 2022 First Post
I’ve decided to start a journal (I dislike the word ‘blog’). Here I’ll place any writing on photography, document ongoing projects, and generally anything I find interesting.