First snow, #photosketching

Standing before a fence, I think about the duality of man. Two surfaces differ, yet both draw the eye toward the space between them. The greys shift, and what once felt solid begins to soften at the edges. #photography

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I thought it would be fun to try something different. Instead of single posts, I’ll share a short series from one film roll. It’s an interesting exercise, trying to edit a narrative of tension within the limits of 36 frames. I’m searching to connects valleys and peaks within those boundaries.

Sunday wandering #photography

Flakse: a Norwegian word for the gentle flutter of wings, a brief movement that disturbs still air. It is how space shifts, how light adjusts, how small moments can carry the weight of our times. Within frames, we try to hold these quiet shifts, shaping how we see. #photography

Reflecting on this corner, to challenge the fixed. The road bends toward the cruise port and the old shipyard, now a staging ground for oil and gas platforms. Once, ships were built here. The landscape has changed, but the rhythm remains. It is where the town meets the deep dark coldness of the sea.

Trying to get some walk the floor editing done. Someone’s go other plans. #photography

Working through contact sheets makes time visible. Each frame carries not only light but also the experience between capture and return. Editing becomes a part of listening to the delay, where distance settles into memory and attention enhances what remains. #photography

Working back through a body of work is a quiet act of rediscovery. Photographs once seen as fragments begin to connect, forming a thread between what was felt in the moment and what is framed within the edit. #photography

With Storm Amy battering the windows and tugging at the roof, we brace for winter. The house tightens, sounds sharpen, and a colder light redraws routes we thought familiar. #photography

A barely visible lonely figure walks the frame, dissolving into darkness. The town bends around us and the ordinary street takes on a quiet sense of a story to explore. #photography

Structures hold our lives. They give form to imagination and memory. Spaces surround us, so familiar they almost fade. Yet when an edit of photographs isolates them, even the most ordinary surface can carry meaning and invite a fragment of narrative. #photography

Over a year ago Anders Mørch invited me for an interview with Louisiana Channel – the world’s largest archive on contemporary art (as mentioned on their YouTube channel). We talked about my graduation, The Sochi Project, The Europeans & more. Full interview here: @arnoldvanbruggen.bsky.social

While working on this project I have been thinking about how we form and define our spaces. As photographers, our position and the frame we choose inform the elements of a narrative.

Structures do more than hold weight. They frame how we move, live, imagine. A bridge is more than infrastructure. It offers passage while creating distance, and beneath its span life adapts. Gardens press against concrete and routines unfold in its shelter. A space of memory lingers under the arch.

Some photoscetching from the last couple of Sunday wandering, searching for the structures of society. #photography

Trying to open my perspective this week. Experiences beyond photography shape how we see and naturally flow back into the work. The peaks and valleys of life guide our attention, influence what we notice, and determine what we choose to frame. #photography

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” ― Joseph Goebbels

Composition in #photography can mirror the structures of the world. Both frame our view, guide our movements, and suggest meaning. Just as a sequence of images rises and falls, the fabric we build shapes the rhythm of life and place.

There is always a mixed feeling when thinking about what value springs from posting the day-to-day of visual ramblings. Do the images matter if they are only part of the audience of process? Each image will always stand on the one before, where growth comes from the edit, not the post. #photography

Please check out this link to Iain's new book. Gorgeous observational work, in print, what's not to love!!

Lately I have been thinking about structure. Both in how we frame a single image and how images connect into a larger narrative. Why do we create these spaces, and from where does the impulse to frame them rise? Why this angle and this light? #photography

Still some summer left. A good moment to wish everyone having or going on their summer vacation a stellar time to pause and recharge.

I'm still looking for art folks here on Bluesky. If that's you, please drop me a line so I can check out your feed. Cheers!

1 more backer takes us over 96% Then maybe just 9 more and we reach full funding! Today? Tomorrow? Trying to avoid 'spamming' my email list with another mail out so doing it here instead :)) Rewards include signed books & prints, mentoring and add-ons. And you name in the book! shorturl.at/MgbKh

We've reached 88% now on the Kickstarter campaign for my new book The Edge of Ruin £13,206 Next target is £13,500 of the £15,000 goal we need to reach to produce the book. Only 10 days left now. How do we get there? (I know we will but it's impossible not to doubt and worry). shorturl.at/MgbKh

This week, my stellar cohort and I wrapped up the first year of our part-time #photography MA at Oxford Brookes. It’s been a year of questions, shifts and many small-framed breakthroughs.

Making a #photobookdummy has been a vital process for finalising the work about #pwme it's allowing us to experiment and to make changes in a way that's not possible on a screen. #photobook #documentaryphotography #mecfs #myalgicencephalomyelitis #fujigfx #documentaryphotobook

Last day of summer vacation. Heading back to work has me thinking about a broader structure for my ongoing project. Looking at these buildings in a small town, I keep returning to the idea of The Work and how labor shapes space, community, and identity. #photography

So it's officially the first very very very very slow day in the Kickstarter campaign for my new book. Where I wonder will our 116th backer, just our third of the day, come from? www.kickstarter.com/projects/107...

Almost the end of vacation means slipping back into the rhythm of work and photography. That shift from rest into movement, familiar and necessary. Months ago I shared a @fkh.no image under the weight of small-town expectation. #photography

Proud to be able to back this, @marcwilson.co.uk.👌🏼 Best of luck to Marc with the project. I’m really looking forward to taking a deep dive into this topic through his book. Knowing his previous work, this Kickstarter is highly recommended. www.kickstarter.com/projects/107...

I lost track of time in the holiday spirit, so this post arrives a bit late. Diptychs invite us to slow down and dwell in the tension between two frames.

How far into darkness channel #photography without losing the thread that connects one image to the next? This week, the diptych leans into open shade and deep shadow. Still, quiet parallels remain. The chimney, the absence of light, the trace of something burned. The threat and the ash.

Continuing from last week and the idea of what informs an image beyond the frame. I’ve been thinking about how simplicity shapes attention. Being responsible for all four corners means making deliberate choices from the start. #photography

Seeing the release of the #photobook Democratic Vistas by Tim Carpenter and Jason Lee, published by Smog Press, made me reflect on creative partnership. Not just collaboration, but the quiet connections between people, place, and the work we make.

Monday, when feeling like a Sunday, #dayof #photography

Sunday, #photoscetching; searching for that awareness of space.

This week I’m thinking about how light constructs form. Not just by revealing what’s already there, but by shaping impressions that live only for brief moments. Shapes are never fixed, appearing and disappearing. Something quiet and uncertain remains.

Some more #photoscetching, because why not? #photography

Football practice is also space for #photoscetching #photography

Sundays are for #photoscetching, and exposing some rolls of film. #photography

Continuing from last week’s #photography post. There was a brief moment when time added something to the process of connecting images. A quiet space between frames that invited reflection. But that moment shifts as soon as the second image appears.

#photosketching our most important resource, the #workers. #photography

open.spotify.com/episode/3nXb... one of my MA students at #oxfordbrookesuniversity produces this podcast and it's very good. On this episode he speaks with another of my students @skogphotography.bsky.social Highly recommended!

Another of my MA students at #oxfrordbrookesuniversity well worth a follow...