Pinhole and Zone Plate photographs
In pinhole photography, the camera lens is replaced by a tiny hole, light passes through the hole and forms an image in the camera.
Pinhole photographs have a pure geometric perspective and the definition of each part of the image is rendered equally, everything is in focus. They also tend towards low contrast and soft definition.
In conjunction with the long exposure required to form a pinhole image, these characteristics can impart a timeless quality to the subject. (exhibition notes)
Landscapes
We find endless fascination in photographing the Somerset landscape.
We'll happily revisit a place over and over again in order to photograph the same scene under different skies and in different lights, trying to capture what it is that strikes us as special about that particular scene.
Because of this, our landscape photographs are as much about the light as they are about the landscape.
Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare
A collection of photographs of Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier before the 2009 fire that destroyed the pavilion.
Abstractions
In this strand of our work we are using a combination of modern technology and classic lensless imaging in order to soften and dissolve the details of form and structure.
Our intent is to allow the emergence of a striking visual essence of almost pure light and shade. (exhibition notes)
Image degradation
Semiotics tells us that the photograph is an index of something that was, not of something which is. In this respect, the photograph is similar to footsteps and tracks.
Although both the photograph and the trace reference a bygone event, the trace remains spatially and temporally fixed, whereas the photographic signifier is both omnitemporal and omnispatial.
Well, up to a point. The materiél of a photographic image inevitably degrades.
Impressions
Work in progress ... we are in the process of setting up a new exhibition. Please mind the wet paint and scaffolding.