Constructed Realities: The Dream

Constructed Realities: Fictions

With this title i decided to base my studio project around a recurring dream i have had over the last year or so. I took the story out of its fictitious state and represented it in the reality of the studio. The sequence is constructed physically rather than mentally, unfortunately i couldn't get a smoke machine to show the fog surrounding the subjects.

This dream is set in a forrest or garden, with a very hazy atmosphere. Glimpsing through the mist there is a young girl who stands in the centre of this botanical scene holding a shining orb. The complexity of time is very apparent in these dreams, flicking back and forth, as if in confusion of reality. The numbers 0, 2, 9, 5, 6, 9 and 8 fly around the forrest, in some sort of dance. As she plays with this sphere, twirling it around her head and up in the air, a nymph enters the scene and takes it from the girl. Now the nymph is the centre of this escapade, and the girl is know-where to be seen. On occasions the girl has try to speak just before the nymph appears, however i cannot make out what is trying to be said... The rest of this dream is in silence.

11-5 Pub Time

"We'll have group A today, and group B can come back tomorrow"

"What shall we do today then guys?"

"Pub?"

"Pub"

"Yeah Pub sound good!"

Its a hard life being a student!

These are the first few shots I took on my new Zenza Bronica ETRSi, so glad to finally have my own.

More from Essaouira

Digital shots from my trip to Essaouira, Morocco, in July 2009.

Essaouira

So starting the catch up of images from the latter half of 2009 is this set of images i took in late July. For 10 days, I was staying in a beautiful house just 5 miles from Essaouira, celebrating a special friends 50th birthday. From the 3 films i took on my holga these were amongst the few that came out as it turns out my holga was broken.

Essaouira is an isolated town on the coast of Morocco where Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley liked to hang out. And i can see why; It is a perfect spot to unwind, eat great seafood and absorb the culture; The medina is home to many small arts and crafts businesses and where Orson Welles filmed scenes of his 1952 classic version of "Othello". The Gnaoua Festival of World Music is held here every year and yet Essaouira has never really become a tourist trap. The narrow streets discourage cars, making it look much as it did in the days of sea pirates.

The Big Freeze!

To kick start 2010 we have had an icy blast of snow cover the uk. I've never seen so much snow and so of course the celebrations began with snowball fights, homemade sledges and building of snow structures. Then comes the time that you need to get food, do work and travel from A to B... which is impossible and a very depressing time in these conditions. I have always been fascinated with snowflakes and icicles so now that they are all around me I can use this opportunity to show the beauty behind this so called 'bad' weather.

A Fresh Start

Happy New year!

Over the last week i have had a kick up the butt over my work attitude and social life, as you can see the has not been much activity on here lately and i aim to change that. Im going to put 100% into my uni course and stop putting social events first. Due to the lack of a scanner and very poor internet connection i have a back log of photos yet to be uploaded for you all to see from as far back as July... so over the next couple weeks i will be showing you work from the later half of 2009 and then onto a fresh start and a new attitude towards photography and my career.