Holly Shackleton Artist

My work at at the Black and White building in Shoreditch, London for Creative Debuts 6th showcase.  

More experimental adventures in the colour darkroom using camera-less photography and my bacteria infested petri dishes. This is a four piece image of four 10 by 8″ prints.

The ideas around my personal manifestobegan from my obsession with collectingphotographs of lost gloves abandoned on the floor. I have expanded from this throughout this manifesto with ideas of tracking, surveillance and forensics being my inspiration. My work starts by col- lecting personal items off the city floor. I then took bacterial swabs from them and grew the bacteria from each object in a petri dish. It was important to me that these items must be personal, something the owner would miss, gloves, hats, jewellery, for example. The petri dishes were my medium which I then created images from. Constricting myself to camera-less photography you will see the results I have achieved and which are still in progress throughout this manifesto. (Taken from my manifesto blurb)

This is how I displayed my final outcome.

This is my final outcome for my first uni project. I based my concept around memory and the construction of it. I gained my initial inspiration from my family album photographs of me and my twin sister from when we were younger. 

London. At night. Digital 50mm lens.

London. Digital, nikon 50mm lens.

London. Colour 35mm film.

Windows London. Colour 35mm film.

Switzerland. I took these photo's in the spring time of this year using 35mm black and white film.

I created this body of work during my foundation year. I have used 35mm black and white film with a slow shutter speed using a tripod. I was most interesting in attempting to capture traces of life and people. This resulted in an abstract picture of time and movement. I used the market in Leeds as a main setting for these photos, mainly due to my interest with nostalgia and keeping hold of traditions which defy the modern lifestyle which is ever progressing and moving faster.

'R.I.P' - Black and white 35mm film shot in Leeds. The beginnings of an idea based around 'the forgotten society'.

I have an on going project of collecting photographs of found gloves. I photograph them as found on the street floor unaltered. The idea of identity and the forgotten has always been of interest to me therefore through this body of work I can combine the two. I have already made a book with this work called #28 in which I will continue to make as I find more gloves.

See previous post for more detail on this body of work.

These are a selection of images from my photography book called 'Your Local'.

Experimental work using a handmade contraption I made to fix onto the end of my film camera lens. I have collected stuff from around this countryside environment and placed it into my contraption. This body of work is much about realising a sense of space and place. It was important to me not to involve photoshop or editing tools within this body of work. I wanted to challenge the photographic medium, creating handmade tools rather than relying on editing programs.

Experimental work using a handmade contraption I made to fix onto the end of my film camera lens. I have collected stuff from the environment of this beach and placed it into my contraption. I wanted to draw attention to the things disregarded within our environment, making people aware by intertwining the two together. This body of work is much about realising a sense of space and place. It was important to me not to involve photoshop or editing tools within this body of work. I wanted to challenge the photographic medium, creating handmade tools rather than relying on editing programs.