On the surface, Plain Sight is a simple study in found abstractions, ordinary objects and the spaces in between spaces. The underlying theme is an expression of a pervasive otherness.

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book - ‘Plain Sight’ is one of 3 launch Another Place Press books, available for only £10 + p&p.

Before I was met with this weeks challenge, I’d read a poetry book that somehow connected with me based on my style of photography. It seemed as if the poems were describing part of what I was thinking when I’d be shooting landscape images. Who knew it’d lead me not in the direction I thought, but to make a moody still life image.

So here it is - my photograph inspired by the poem Sunday by John Donlan. (This may be past the point, but I re-read this poem on a Sunday when I chose it.)

A few lines from the end of the poem go like this:

The “tangenziale” of Milan is a ring of by-pass highways built around the city since the mid-‘60s, with the aim of easing traffic congestion.

On a highway, you’re not supposed to stop, unless it is an emergency. Getting out of your car, not out of necessity, but just for the sake of looking around, is therefore a way of saying “stop the world, I wanna get off”. You leave your daily world, where time is never enough and everybody is always in a hurry, and find yourself in a world that existed long before humans, that flows so slowly that it almost looks still, and that we are less and less used to considering.

This unusual dimension – all the more surprising because discovered in the most unlikely of places – brings back the childlike joy of exploring, and awakens our senses. And we see as if for the first time a landscape that, from the highway, looks almost unreal, because we are closed inside a car, and we can’t feel a thing, and we see it always from the same perspective. But then, when you walk on the grass just a few metres off the guard-rail, you can’t but wonder how alive that grass is, and how much more real than everything in your car…

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We highly recommend this book, our favourite photobook of 2015.

THE PRESENT (2014)

Cinemagraph 

Variable Dimensions.

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“Botanical” is a modern photographic reinterpretation of the classical botanical illustrations produced between the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Reality is refracted by the greenhouse’s ground glass and reminds me of the paper used in watercolour paintings. The colors are subtle and sophisticated, they mirror the tones found in these kind of illustrations.

The whole idea was to reproduce preserved nature in the style of botanical illustrations.

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