Process Thoughts Behind the Images Submitted for Werkhaus Zine
I recently submitted six images from my Exposed series for Workhorse Collective’s Werkhaus Zine. I’ll talk about each image and it’s inclusion in the submission in this post!
I recently submitted six images from my Exposed series for Workhorse Collective’s Werkhaus Zine. I’ll talk about each image and it’s inclusion in the required six images for the submission below!
Werkhaus Zine's Now and Again Submission
Past echoing into the present, buildings and structures falling into disrepair, or showing signs of adaptation. The impermanence of supposedly permanent edifices. How will these structures look in another ten or twenty years? Will they still exist? Resist the elements and remain as they are today? Change into something else entirely?
This house is in nearby Rothwell, and was the starting point for the project. I’d driven through Rothwell for years, to and from the kids’ football sessions, ebfore one day glancing across while stopped at the busy junction you can see in the background of the photo.
I couldn’t stop thinking about this unique house, how the brickwork is so distinctive, while also being pretty run-down in the middle of an otherwise affluent town. I quickly drew up a cycling route to return and have more time to photograph (basically oone road from where I live to here, but that’s beside the point. I had to wait a while to complete my intended shot, including the clear road in the foreground, as the junction is so busy.
So busy in fact, that the only way I could get a clear shot of the road was to shoot quickly in between cars driving past! Hence the amber light at those traffic lights, the red quickly comes and leaves waiting cars in the foreground, spoiling the intended shot…
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