Remembrance Sunday Sodley-on-Sea

Group Show 46 F*CKED UP.

 

 Sodley-on-Sea pictures featured in HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION, GROUP SHOW F*cked Up. It's the picture Beauty Spot Above Sodley-on-Sea, HERE

Ten Grand Wedding At Sodley Hall.

Anti-Social Behaviour On The Mount Pleasant Estate Sodley-on-Sea 2015

Like many towns in Britain Sodley-on-Sea has a housing estate called Mount Pleasant.

At The Beach Sodley-on-Sea.

 

Sodley beach. I like to think of this picture as the bastard love child of Martin Parr's beach photo's and the traditional Bamforth dirty postcard...

Untitled Sodley-on-Sea.

It was a lovely clear morning....

Beauty Spot Near Sodley-on-Sea 2015

The doggers are going to be well pissed off but at least they will have somewhere to sit.

Beauty Spot Above Sodley-on-Sea 2015

 

That fucker from behind the shops is at it again.

Ukippers, Sodley-on-Sea May 2015

Unsurprisingly enough Sodley-on-Sea had been a UKIP target for a number of years.....

Stabbing At The Kebab Shop 2015

You may notice it's the chap from my first picture of Sodley-on-Sea. It's all very sad. HERE . You may also notice that the Kebab shop is next to the White Lion pub HERE once I get a map made it will help getting your bearings.

Snack Van Along The B1234 Near Sodley-on-Sea 2015

 

Can you see the sea yet?

Hens, Sodley-on-Sea 2015

The girls from HERE are out and about in Sodley enjoying the sun. I don't think it will be the last we see of them.....

Behind The Shops, Sodley-on-Sea 2015

 

Even a town as idyllic as Sodley has it's dodgy bits.

Ed Watts Does William Eggleston.

It's about time Manchester Photography did a post about a Manchester photographer. It's Ed Watts I'm referring to. I'm sure a lot of you know him. He's been organising photo related stuff at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and further afield with gems such as The Alternative Camera Club, Roast Beef and such like for ages.
Here though I'm interested in what he's been up to with his own photography. The above picture, that even the most photographically illiterate provincial council art gallery curator should spot is William Eggleston's 1973 piccy Greenwood Mississippi.
Watts, and I'm going to call him that rather than Ed so that I sound more impartial and professional, has been thinking about this photo for years. I can testify that he has wanted to recreate that space for donkey's. Well thanks to the folk at this years FORMAT Festival he's going to build that ceiling as a life size installation/sculpture and invite others to photograph this iconic scene. I wonder if that room was ever photographed by anyone else? It's so famous a ceiling but it's the only photo I know of the place which is unusual because as we all know photographers love to photograph the same thing over and over again. Just look at that canal/river in Hackney, I'm sick of the fucking sight of it.
Anyway Ed, I mean Watts is going to give all of us photographers the chance to photograph that red ceiling again and again and again and we can flood the internet with shit loads of versions of it so when we next type in Greenwood, Mississippi 1973 we will get the same but different.
As I said in the last post too many photographers call themselves photo artists without doing anything more than point and shoot. Watts is screwing that notion up with this piece.

Bag(s) of Shite.

Images copyright John Darwell.

Yep that's what they are, bags of shite. Bags of dog shit to be exact. Or to give the work it's full title 'DISCARDED DOG SHIT BAGS' by John Darwell. A typology of a very modern phenomenon and I'm guessing a pretty British one. Go to beauty spot to commune with nature, into the lovely park land and then when your dog shits place it in a plastic bag and hang it from a tree like some fucking hellish totem. Once you stop giggling at the idea and disgust of the series it 'throws up' (no pun intended) all kinds of modern life nonsense. Another spin knowing John is that the exhibition prints will be spot on so beautiful prints of horribleness. You'll want to look but then a bit of sick will be in your mouth at the same time as you have a wry smile on your face. It will be a messy time at The 2011 FORMAT FESTIVAL where you will be able to see the series next march.

Image copyright Christopher Churchill

I can't remember if it was Tod Papageorge, or one of one of my old lecturers who said "you should have a reason to use colour ". So tell me, would colour add anything at all to the above image?
Top picture by Christopher Churchill one of my favourite photographers from the latest crop from HEY HOT SHOT.

No post as such to go with this piccy, I just love this photograph. I've always been fascinated by Joseph Beuys anyway. This picture is by LISELOTTE STRELOW (1906 1981) What a bloody picture it is..........

Flashlab

Flashlab creates fotografic still lifes, whereas the term Volagrafien better fits the matter. In a labour-intensive work process which employs as many as five people simultaneously for the creation of a photograph, objects and materials of various kinds are thrown and photographed using very short exposure times to freeze movements. We are indebted to Bron, who provided a Scoro Generator which achieves flashing times of up to 1/12 000 sec.

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Lewis W. Hine, Spinner, Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, silver contact print, 1909

You can look at photo's all day and then every so often one comes along that just stops you in your tracks, even one from another world away.