About me: I'm a Photographer, Writer, Poet and English Teacher from England, now living in Kansas City. I am addicted to road trips. Photography is how I make sense of the world. It is the Great-Inside-Out. I update my work, more or less, on a daily basis on JPG magazine.com. Just search my name. I can also be found at flikr and other selected portfolios can also be found at the photo agency which I am a member of 'Get the Picture' getthepicture.free.fr
The first slideshow (below) is called 'Trace Elements'. Images I made in and around Madrid, Spain in Sep-Dec 07
Sunday/Bacon, March 08
Altered States of Agoraphobia,U.S.A. Jan 08-June 08
Manhattan/Mosaic, New York City, June 08
Running on Empty, Road Trip, Virginia-Kentucky-Kansas, June 08
I arrived in America when the recession was beginning to bite. It was an election year and both discontent and a need for change was in the air. Gas prices were rising steeply, the housing market was in crisis, business's were on the brink of closing and the future for many people was looking uncertain.
These images were made on several road trips I made during this time (and still making) and could be described as a collection of psychic co-ordinate points that I have made between the imagined America that I brought with me from England and the real America which I found on my arrival last year.
They are the search for a kind of personal orientation between the dream or idea of a place and my actual experience of it in reality. And, very much like a dream, this reality has been often interpreted in these photographs, symbolically and this is how they are to be viewed.
Good luck w/ the exhibit, Simon. Unfortunately, there's a bit of a distance issue, for me, but, if you ever do something in NYC, I will surely be in attendance.
Hi again, Simon! No, I'm in Wellington, New Zealand! Cool that your photography is going so well ... like the pics you posted on my blog, unusual light and objects. Hopefully my first novel will be translated, but I'm writing my second one in English. x
hey yes I'm very happy at the moment ... am living and working at a backpackers in wellington. have just finished 2nd draft of my 2nd novel so am having a bit of a break from writing. don't even feel like writing. it's weird ... how is your life going?
Hey - I just picked up your message - I saw the fox and I laughed..! I had just done my medicine cards - and Fox was one of the ones I picked....:) Just read your dreams....and some of your poems....Thank you! xxxminks
Hello Simon - I am really glad you like my music, thank you.
I'm sure I've told you and I'll say again that your photos are wonderful, very dynamic, great observation, depth and I love your style. All the best - Robb
