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Occasionally, I'll make a photograph that is not part of a series and I am calling these Singles as it ties in with my interest in recorded music as well as emphasising their singularity.
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Singles
2017
Studio photograph of an assemblage indicative of my interest in recorded music.
I had been given a stack of old seven-inch 45s which were well beyond their playable condition so I promoted them to the rack having first painted the two end labels with acrylic paint.
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certain thoughts, deeds or actions might be ‘wrong’, anti-social, corrupt or unacceptable, the procreative instinct is a persuasive influence and LOVE, or deep feelings for fellow persons, is—in my humble and somewhat muddled view—an essential part of one’s being or existence. Just a thought; not very clear—lacking the clarity, perhaps, of the threats revealed in ‘the book’.
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Paris Passion​
2012
I was looking at one of my bookshelves and my eye rested on the 63mm spine with the word Paris in pink.
I realised that I had accumulated a considerable number of books about or refer to or are set in the city so I thought I'd get them all together and make a photograph. I finally included videos of films, DVDs, exhibition catalogues, maps, photographs and relevant objects.
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NDE or the Alphaville Effect: Got to Keep Moving​
2015
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A few years ago I was invited to participate in an exhibition and open studio. The title of the show was Fidget (and I still don’t know why that was its title). I decided to make a piece that related to or, at least, stemmed from the word. The piece evolved during the making from a thirty-second durational shot in the corridor outside my studio with me moving about as if waiting, to a considerably processed monochrome print. 2015
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Berlin Portrait. 2013
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Melanie​
c 2000
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This was one of the first photographs that I made with a digital camera.
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I had determined that I would not have an interest in digital cameras until the manufacturers started to put decent lenses on the bodies. Sony seemed to be an early developer and at one time I had the use of a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F707 which had a Carl Zeiss zoom lens projecting out the front. The main body seemed to hang on the back and it swivelled so that it could be used at waist level which I liked.
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Melanie was obligingly sitting on the windowsill in my living room in front of the perspex screen and I just pressed the button.
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Library​
2017
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I was reading the book entitled .diane arbus. (published by Gordon Fraser, London in 1972) which contains edited transcripts of classes, interviews and writings by Diane Arbus.
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I read the following sentence:
"I used to worry about being like this. Not knowing more. But now — now I don't worry any more."
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The words struck a chord and I thought of the additional bookshelves I had just installed at home to house some of my books that had been in storage for so long. Could this be why I have so many books?
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The sentence is incorporated as text in the bottom of the photograph.
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