Radio from the Patrick Cook collection. Taken in his artist studio in Brockley, London, late 1980s
Shot on a Horseman LX 5×4 studio camera, 150mm Nikon lens, Bowens flash.
The Lakes
The Lake District. Fellow ex Cowley pupils, 1982. We had gone our separate ways to college/university/polytechnic but met back up in the Summer for a few days. In the car on the way up from St.Helens we played an Imagination tape none stop, “body talk” and “just an illusion” being favorites. Some enjoyed a swim in the freezing water, I just kept my camera dry.
College project: Nightlife, isolation 2
The central part of a series of nightlife images from my final year exhibition at Trent Polytechnic in 1983.
Nottingham.
College project: Nightlife, isolation 3
The central part of a series of nightlife images from my final year exhibition at Trent Polytechnic in 1983.
Nottingham.
Two worlds
I cannot reconcile my earlier documentary work and my later commercial work.
Some images cross the boundary a little easier. This image didnt sell too well through Getty Images though of course that is only one way to judge it.
Between two worlds new patterns emerge.
Ferns shot on 6×7 colour transparency and the water shot on a Gandolfi camera using 10″x 8″ black and white film. Image composited in Barco Creator Software. Both images shot in the early 1990s, Location: the Lake District / Brockley, London.
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Post Office Telecommunications
24 hour Buzz service says the Buzby poster on the side of the van. Before privatization and it becoming BT the Post Office looked after the telephone service. The distinctive red and white plastic tents kept the weather out as the engineers joined impossible bundles of copper wire together. Nottingham circa 1981.
The Gasometers have gone but some 40 years later there is still access to the phone network in the same place.
Burning off the leaves
Nottingham, Circa 1981
Violin Making School
Newark Violin Making School. Part of a Trent Polytechnic project to make a college prospectus for Newark College. 1981/82
Fellow flatmate
Student accommodation, Flat 8, Hampden Street, Nottingham, 1980/81
Fellow flatmate
Student accommodation, Flat 8, Hampden Street, Nottingham, 1980/81
A quiet moment
Student accommodation, flat 8 Hampden Street, Nottingham. Summer 1980.
Umbrella shop
In 1990 I went on a trip to Poland. It was in the later stages of the fall of communism. Among the extensive brutalist concrete buildings in the various cities I went to there was always a little place where the sunshine came through.
Children of the stones
