#david woolfall

In 2010 I photographed my bed after waking everyday for a year, for want of a better I name I called the series, ’Unmade Bed’ and later The Poetry of Things, which in some way seemed more apt, the beauty in the everyday.

I may have been drawn to photography early on because of its association to memory. It by its very essence holds what is no longer there and this dicotomy has always facinated me. Whether it’s people scars and the memories behind them or the spaces that people vacate I have always been drawn photography’s ability to show what is no longer but what for certain did at some stage exist.

Unmade bed was an extension of this train of thought. I wanted to do a piece of work on the bed. A place where people sleep, where they exist and don’t exist. In our dream filled minds we go to to places that our spaces rarely siginify, we are there not not there.

I was also interested in the data in the camera verses the aestheics of the photograph. In some sence the cameras scope showed very little, it was a very narrow documentry project but the digital camera is loaded with information about the date and time, GPS co-ordonates, the exposure the make-up of pixels of the picture represented.

David WoolFall is a London based portrait photographer, who started his career by Assisting commercial photographers while working on his own projects after graduating from the Kent institute of art and design in 1998.

His series ‘I invent’ is one of my favorites of his because it reminds me of my child hood hobbies, which was to create and make things and looking through the series brought those memories back.  

http://www.davidwoolfall.com/invent/

This image is of Merlyn Farwell standing on his castle, that consists several floors thus needing an elevator a tower and a few turrets. 

what i love about the photo is that of the position of Merlyn, standing looking out into the distance with that victorious/contempt posture drinking from his mug.