From a new project Drift which I’ve recently added to my website. All of the images made wandering my hometown of Brighton. You can see the project here
My photobook Insurrection has been selected for inclusion for I Book Show in St Petersburg later this year with a preview show in Brighton.
Photobookshow have announced a one night show in Brighton this coming Friday May 5th in Brighton to showcase the 70 books from around the world selected for the St Petersburg show.
The Brighton Studio will host the evening of photobooks, drinks and music. You are warmly invited to join me and all other selected artists. There will be a panel discussion at 7pm, featuring Murray Ballard, Jack Latham and Kirsty Mackay discussing their recent photobooks. This is a free event open to all, everyone is welcome so please invite your friends.
Friday 5th May, Doors open 6pm, Panel discussion 7pm
“Photography projects can ‘work’ in any number of different ways. Most
often in book form they are treated as a kind of narrative, that is, a
sequence of images in a particular order intended to tell a particular
story. Of course, photographs don’t allow for the kind of detailed
exposition we see in cinema or in novels, so these narratives operate
under a very different set of constraints, and yet the substance of the
work in question often comes precisely as a result of its (narrative)
form. A good example of how narratives can serve more than just a
strategic purpose is Marcus Haydock’s recently published Insurrection,
which relies on what is, for him, a characteristic indirectness to
create a very powerful mood that has been cultivated and shaped into a
distinctive mode of expression. It is not, at the same time, entirely
without precedent; the vein of subjective photography in which he works
has a long, if recently somewhat neglected history and Haydock has
mastered the sort of open-ended vocabulary that the genre demands.”
- I wrote about Insurrection, a new book by Marcus Haydock. You can read the rest here.
Insurrection was created from an edit of 70
photographs drawn from work that was made over a two to three year period, I
made images intuitively whenever and wherever I happened to find my self.
Moments that are felt, sensed, and which become a record of my
subjective experience.
I’m excited to announce that my first monograph, Insurrection, is now available as a limited-edition book. Its beautifully printed on Naturalis Absolute White Matt 160gsm paper with a clothbound hard cover and in an edition of 100. For more information about the book, please visit this page, and to order a copy click here.
This
project was commissioned in 2006 by The Faversham Society with the North Kent
Local Authorities Arts Partnership (NKLAAP). The project was initiated in
response to the rapid transformation taking place in North Kent brought about
by The Thames Gateway Development and my brief was to record the changing
landscape and particularly the place of water in the urban and rural areas of
that landscape.
In his introduction to
the Vanishing Shore catalogue David Chandler wrote of this work,
“rather than articulate
an unequivocal world, it recognises that world more as we actually see it, that
is through the filter of our emotions and ideas; a world which is in fact full
of ambiguities and inconsistencies, one that is prone to fluctuate from one
moment to the next.“
The work
was exhibited in a series of six exhibitions in different locations throughout
the region and is my own personal response to the environment that I was asked
to photograph.
