Pretty ugly »

Pretty ugly

Here’s my rant on beauty. I hope that some parts of this will appear in my press release for my exhibition at Camara Oscura, Madrid, April 17th – May 31st, along with some other issues my work seems to have raised…
There is one remark that lots of people make about my work, even when they [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings on March 1st, 2008 | 50 Comments »

Picture what? »

Picture what?

Picture what?
Three weeks ago I sat down to watch the first installment of a programme called Channel 4’s ‘Picture This’, slightly disappointed that I hadn’t heard about the competition in time to enter, as digital photography and photo-sharing are a big part of my life.
By the end of the programme, instead, I was confused, angry [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings on January 21st, 2008 | Leave a comment »

How disgusting? »

There seems to have been a number of artists experiencing appalling cases of copyright infringement, someone in the latest line being Lara Jade, a self portrait of whose (an image made when she was 14) was used by a pornographic film company.
Lara has tried to approach the company but received rude, pathetic responses. I hope [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings on May 25th, 2007 | 8 Comments »

Opening up again »

It’s been a while since I last blogged but I thought I’d drop in and leave a few words.
Looking forward to getting university exams and coursework out of the way so I can embark on a summer season’s worth of further photography and more experimentation with the self portrait. I will be aiming for my [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings on May 14th, 2007 | 16 Comments »

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