P H O T O T I M E P A R T T W O

 A L A S D A I R

 H E L E N

C H R I S

CAROLINE

S H O W & T E X T

 SHOW& TELL .SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL . SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT.SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT.SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT. SHOW& TELL. SHOW & LISTEN. SHOW & TEXT.

  Slightly less soul destroying than a SHOW & LISTEN, a SHOW & TEXT allows the artist to interrupt half way through the observations from their peers with an artists’ statement, which has the effect of either confirming their ideas about your concepts or completely alters the way they view your work. Either way, it is beneficial for the seeing as you get lots of exciting feedback, and everything’s based upon feedback. Still, they are not fun, sitting in an airless room all day long while people criticise and comment on your work, while you try desperately not to take offense reminding yourself that this criticism is CONSTRUCTIVE, ugh. 

But this was what I showed:

 Fifteen 21x 30 inch photos

‘Even though they don’t stand out, you stood out every time’ 

P H O T O T I M E

TAKING PICTURES

I have always taken photos as a way of capturing moments. Originally only photographing significant events or unions of people, but recently I realised that the moments of normalcy and basic intimacy can make the most exciting photos.

My memory is pretty awful, so it is a way for me to relive these memorable times, whether they were good or bad, fleeting or durational. I like having a hard copy of an event; a piece of evidence to back up that flash of memory. Just to remind myself it did happen, in that way.

I photograph the moments that are important to me; the moments in these pictures are significant, not because they are of a particular occasion, but because there is something about that moment that is in its own minute way really stood out to me. They are poignant and personal and provoke emotion, in myself and hopefully in the viewer. I am unsettled by what I see sometimes but that is even more the reason to take the shot. Life can be full of crap but also really great and I plan on photographing both. 

F  I   R  S  T     S  E  T.