Artwork description:

This piece is a triptych of images created 20 years apart. The image of the woman was taken as part of a series with a plastic holga camera and transparency film in a field on a cold day in North Lincolnshire; the tree stands on a windswept hill at the site of an iron age fort by my home; and the image of the bird was found in a dusty pile of old large format slides that I bought from a country auction. When I shoot, I regularly find myself capturing somewhat random images that inspire me at the time, but have no real sense of context. That comes later when I layer together the different elements of a piece to create a narrative. In the moments that I capture the images it’s more like being a collector than a photographer. It’s in the post-photographic process that the story is told.

Materials used:

Archival pigment print on fine art paper

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