ASMARP.
Hello again and welcome to another small meditative absorption regarding photographies.
ASMARP if you will .
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Currently my research has me feeling like a small pebble in a river being swept along in a current while a storm rages overhead, my only choice is to go along with the flow.
Today I would like to (briefly) discuss the act of photography. Specifically mine, many recent developments have lead to a re-examining of what value it has to me, the significance and future directions. It’s taken a major amount of reflection on what I am/whom I am as a photographer, although this is a long everlasting journey, I thought I’d share some of the more current discoveries here.
In an examination of the now, I have started this with a base of quantifying what I was. The realisation that I’ve always been classed as quite strange in the traditional sense of what a photographer should be. I find beauty in banality, I’m optimistic about the ordinary and somewhat moved by the mundane. With rumination I feel that the provision of imagery to clients in the commercial sense was never to their satisfaction. Although I carved out a 25+ year career within it I never did seem to get it ‘right’ in many eyes.
This was partly the reason why Urgent Temporality was established, part vehicle for many facets of research and as a place for these types of images that didn’t seem to fit in that established sense. UT’s ‘new’ pictures differ from the previous, these are slightly less confrontational with no people, they really are just me observing the ordinary with objectivity, they still feel as important to me in the larger picture of my total career. Next discovery is the absolute love that I have for the sheer act of photographing, I love to flaneuse, which in my (possibly unique) definition is to wander in a certain way making pictures. I love the feeling of making images of details both large and small.
This Urgent Temporality research practice has taken up this mantle strongly with this now of wandering looking for the ordinary, combining the two to create these images. If you need a word to make this, make sense, then can I offer a combination of the three words combined:
Ordinary-Wandering-Photography.
Ordin-wande-graphy.
Ordinderaphy.
Ord-der-phy.
I believe that may need further cogitation.
As ever we need an image to illustrate so thought I’d show the most recent of examples of this image making, these are made on a combination of devices which give different feels to each.
Here are three sets of four images of
the everyday, the mundane, the banal, the ordinary.
My gratitude for your time.
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I see the future of these weekly discourses seemingly settling into an alternate week rota of ‘examination of words’ then an ‘examination via pictures’ scenario. Quite like the conformity of that, feel the criteria restrictions of this will lead into wider, interesting developments rather than focus on the individual decision making, will trial this to see how it works.