beach

a couple of photo works that i submitted for the hand magazine. one was published. they were originally taken using a diana camera, which i'd modified to take 35mm film. i didn't do a brilliant job of that, as the light leaking wiped out most of the roll. a few shots were usable, though. by way of explanation, here's what i wrote for the hand magazine...

"When I was a student studying darkroom photography, I could never get the perfect print my tutors were always after. In the end, I realised that I just wasn't obsessive enough about the state of my negatives to do so. So I began to use my limitations as the feature of the work - drawing on the negatives, sandwiching scratched negatives together, exposing different areas for different times, putting my fingers all over the negatives and prints, all the things I wasn't supposed to do. I enjoyed it so much more, the results were so much better, and each print become an unrepeatable one-off. Embrace your weakness."


Beach A
Silver gelatin print - Photographed with Diana F+, modified for 35mm negative
298mm x 238mm
2014


Beach B
Silver gelatin print - Photographed with Diana F+, modified for 35mm negative
300mm x 239mm
2014

Original, one-off prints - AU$50 each (contact adrian@4-4-2music.com for details)

samantha

after enjoying playing around using pole posters as the raw material, i thought i'd do another, so went for a portrait of sam, the other half of boom blip blip.


samantha
paper collage on cardboard
78cm x 102cm
2013
$200
(contact adrian@4-4-2music.com for details)

self portrait 2012

i've always had a liking for the telegraph pole posters used to advertise gigs. i had an idea to use these as collage material. so, using the same ideas as with the painting portraits i've been doing for a while - simplified tone etc - i put the posters to use. this is a self-portrait that i completed to use as part of an exhibition i did with sam lee in our guise as boom blip blip. i did my self portrait, she did hers, then we did portraits of people we both knew, collaborating to different levels on each one. for more details on the other works and the actual exhibition, head across to the boom blip blip website (www.boomblipblip.com).



self portrait 2012
paper collage on cardboard
100cm x 100cm
2012
$200