Photography workshops – urban, rural and maritime

picture-cubeHere’s some documentation of photography/arts/all-sorts-of-things workshops I’ve run in Bristol and surrounding areas over a few years. Continue reading

3. The Woods – transformations

One of the trees I photographed the most often in these woods, its curved trunk leaning gently above the path had such grace; I loved this path and the tree, but it was felled in 2002, just after my year-long project. The story follows.

The ‘ghost’ of my favourite beech tree, after felling.

silk-woodblock-print-woodsThis is a sequel to the first post about the The Woods project – ‘The Woods – a Year and a Day‘. It’s a sad story but with a richly rewarding outcome. It’s told here through the pages of a photo book that hasn’t yet got as far as a finished, physical object…(update – it does now exist as a small pamphlet)
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1. ‘The Woods – a Year and a Day’

This is the largest project I’ve ever done and one that still has a life. There’ll be further posts on other aspects of this project and on recent developments, but this is a record of the process that began with a commitment, to myself, to photograph a particular woodland that hugs the banks of 2 streams near my home, over the course of a year, from 1st January 1999, but eventually included 1st January 2000, hence the title.

The exhhibition of The Woods - a Year and a Day, at Ashton Court VIsitor Centre, Bristol 2001

The exhibition of The Woods – a Year and a Day, at Ashton Court Visitor Centre, Bristol 2001

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