Brighton Photo Fringe 2016 Over the past year, I have collaborated with five photographers, each with a distinct style and approach, in a project to photograph the area between the piers on Brighton seafront. The resulting work will be shown as part … Continue reading
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Using a macro lens has allowed me to identify elements within the environment which throw a light upon the contrasts between city life and nature, textures and materials, hard and soft, sunshine and rain. Sea and rain and beer – this is … Continue reading
At the end of the Brighton Pier, there is a cubicle where the fairground ride operator sits and works the controls. The cubicle is covered in metallic and brightly coloured plastic. Colours on the surface of the cubicle constantly change, … Continue reading
There’s a phone box on the seafront, shabby, grubby and smelly, with various things stuck to the glass and metal surfaces: flyers advertising all sorts, chewing gum, stickers and the like, all fading and peeling with the passage of time. … Continue reading
Seashells are an important part of coastal ecosystems: they provide materials for birds’ nests, a home or attachment surface for algae, sea grass, sponges and a host of other micro-organisms. Fish use them to hide from predators and hermit crabs use … Continue reading
Now obsolete phone boxes on the promenade are covered in advertising flyers; posters and stickers are taped or blue-tacked on then torn off or pasted over with newer ones; a top layer of graffiti adds to the visual cacophony as … Continue reading