#goldsmithsalumniart

The fact is, I am not a good photographer. 😹 Nothing is ever in focus, I cut off people's feet, and no matter how many classes I have taken in my life, it is just not a tool that comes second nature to me. But I can still have fun with it… so sometimes I try. #blurryphotosforever

In the late 90s, living in London, I wrote to Alison Shaw of the band Cranes to ask if I could take her photo. She called me on the phone! She said yes. (Remember that saying, “You don’t ask - you don’t get”...) We used the photography studio at Goldsmiths College. I had no idea what I was doing, as is evident from the results. I projected my other photos onto her. She was amazing, and very patient, and very kind. We hung out socially a few times after that. She even came to my graduation art show at the college in 1999. 🖤 After I left London we kept in touch a little via letters and maybe a couple emails, but eventually lost touch.

A Cranes fan contacted me and asked if they could use one of the photos for a gig flyer in Portsmouth, which I didn’t actually get to go to, but I still have the flyers. Anyway - here are a few of the photos from our shoot, and there may be more - as usual I am totally disorganized and nothing is kept together.