PhD completed

Jul28

Finally completed viva, corrections and conferment. Graduation was on Tuesday, which I was very pleased to share with both my family, and with (a few of the) friends who have been on a similar journey since we first met way back in September 2012

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Manchester Museum collage

Oct15

This is approximately half (right-hand side) of a longer series. Linear collage breaking ‘4th wall’ by including people close to camera. Exposures at different times reflected in changing light, clouds and shadow angles. Oxford Road, Manchester, U.K. 2017

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A collage of University of Manchester, Waterhouse’s buildings

Jul11

Some of The University of Manchester’s Victorian buildings along Oxford Road. Includes part of the Whitworth Hall and Manchester Museum. Twenty images, taken over a period of ten minutes, collaged together to form one panorama from multiple perspectives.

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Compass points

Apr30

Bandstand, Victoria Park, Manchester. Composition of views from North, East, South and West. IMG_0562 comp sm

RBS Tower composite at dusk

Mar29

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An image composed of two framings. One for the lower (exterior) portion (two exposures – the first includes pedestrians on left side and far right, the second for the traffic trails). The other is a composite of 7 exposures for the upper floors, showing the people framed by the windows over a 20 minute period, as they pack up at the end of the working day (4.40 – 5pm).

The location is the Royal Bank of Scotland building on Deansgate, Manchester

Every plane

Jan6

Every plane in 25 minutes over Fred Perry House, Stockport

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Installation images of the exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University

Oct13

Here are a couple of shots of the final selection for the pop-up exhibition at the International conference on the image 2016. There are a couple of new images created since the last post.

Pop-up exhibition at the 7th International Conference on the Image

May31

These are samples of the images I’m hoping to exhibit at this conference in Liverpool (September 1st & 2nd 2016)

As the research and practice are ongoing they may be updated or replaced, but the principle of representing architecture as temporal, dynamic, multi-layered spaces is common to all images. The various techniques employed are inspired by cinema (e.g. Tati’s Playtime & Mon Oncle), subtraction of information, sequences of motion (e.g. every plane in 25 minutes over Stockport), architectural drawings (elevation, section and plan) and time of day/seasonal fixity. More case studies will follow e.g. drawing from collage techniques.