new camera

Been a while since Ive posted last, since then I have a new camera. A beautiful Hasselblad 500cm with an 80mm 2.8 zeiss planar lens. These are some of the results from the first couple of rolls through it.

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Just been havin a look at advertisements and their construction in relation to the product. Came across this light-hearted bit of photoshop trickery.

Addictions

This term my project is directing towards addictions with a certain focus upon the more socially acceptable addictions. Typically, addiction has related to physical (chemical) addictions to substances such as heroin or cocaine, changing cultures have posed alternative, psychological addictions. These psychological addictions tend to be more socially acceptable, to certain extents.
Addictions differ from obsessions when the subjects experiances symptoms when withdrawn from the activity in questions. This maybe anxiety or aggressive behaviours when seperated.

Objects originally designed to assist with life may become sources of addiction through overusage and desensitisation to their original effect, whilst the mind continues to seek the original psychological experiance of the first use. For example the video game, occasional gameplay may produce feelings of excitement at times in the gamer, however if played excessivelythe brain seeks an experiance to a marginally higher degree than the previous.

Im hoping to try and look at the types of modern addictions whilst also looking at what makes it an addiction..

Berber

Its been a little time since this blog has seen an update, Ive wanted to try and keep this as fresh as possible. I dont expect many people to read it, but its nice to just look back on - as a kind of diary if y0u like.

Today scanned in some negs from my travels from last summer and came across this which I had completely forgotten about. Its from my travels last year, overland from Prague to Malaga with a cheat of a flight rom Cairo to Casablanca. Anyway, the sitter stayed in the same hostel and he wanted me to photograph him getting a 'cut throat cut', he was american and so this was rather novel (if not intimidating) After casing a few joints, enough trust was found to go into this place.
I was pleased with how this one came out, it rather reminds me of Alex Webbs serious which was also on Istanbul.

Gogol Bordello!

After seeing Afies rather delicious photos of park hill flats and makin me jealous, thought id exact my revenge with some pictures of Gogol Bordello.

These are the best of a small bunch from their performance the other night at the Carling Academy, Newcastle. Party is a very good way to explain the ectatic atmosphere, a fantastic concert with Mr Hutz exuding energy. I managed to stop dancing momentarily to snap these couple of pictures.

Im afraid ive been working in film for the past few few weeks which may explain the lack of postings on here. Hopefully should get something on here in the next week or so...

Place

Well its been a little bit of a while since Ive posted here. Not quite sure if anyone still looks at these, but anyway - it'll serve as an 'aid d memoir.' Since my last postings Ive completed another project and NTU - Place.

For this I looked at the ironic juxtaposition of the presupposed and realised reality in relation to place name. Examples being such as 'Temple' above, semiotics lying within the discarded liquor bottle and the references to escapism within the telephone box.

I used a mix of large and medium format for this project, which in itself was quite an experiance. First time on the 5x4" view camera with the increased difficulty of slide film It was a relief to get a few nice exposures. The stress at times did soon pay off with the beauty in the colour and detail with the transparencies, although I may take a little breather and go back to medium format for the time-being.

Onto new horizons, Im home for Easter whilst brainstorming for a new project. At the moment Im thinking of something along the lines of Gregory Credson or Cindy Sherman and the constructed film stills. However much thought is needed. Watch this space...

Exploration and the likes

Well, I said Id try and keep this blog going with stuff and current projects although this post has been a little overdue. Ive been working mainly in film in the last couple of weeks (35mm, 120 AND 5x4 which is just plain beautiful) so scanning is a little more time consuming.

The last couple of weeks, along with alfie and sean Ive explored some old abandoned buildings around Nottingham, all really fascinating. The above being an abandoned pub, walls all around dappled with light streaming from the city lights outside, both eerie and intriguing. Sean did a fantastic long exposure on large format whilst alfie did something reminscent of an old horror flick with masterful flash work.

This porject at uni Im working on place which is still developing and evolving...but more on that to come...