London Exhibition

I have just come back from London where i have been exhibiting at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. The exhibition was for our degree show, and opened on Thursday night. The opening night was really good, amazing turnout, and plenty of wine and beer to go around. In addition to the two strips of images that i showed in Swansea for the degree show i had a slideshow of 21 images, showing a selection of all the shoots that had been taken of this performance. The exhibition stays open until tomorrow night, then i shall be returning to London on Tues to collect my work, and see the 'exposed' exhibition at Tate Modern!

Today me and Ami embarked on another photo shoot. We drove out to Llansamlet train station and set the camera up on the platform. The idea this time was to perform an act to demonstrate the notion of us going our separate ways shortly (I am moving back to Devon and Ami is staying in Swansea.) The camera was set on a 10 second timer, so we started at opposite ends and ran past each other as fast as we could until the shutter released.

Again on timer, we started at this centre point, crawled along the railing, then at a certain point we jumped over into the bushes.

After jumping over the railings, we climbed our way through the foliage in separate directions.

Here we tried to hide ourselves in the hill, separated by mounds of mud and long grass.

We climbed the tree in different directions for as far as we could until the shutter went off and stopped us.

The earliest memories that we talked about seemed to often be things we were scared of. My biggest fear as a child was of the dark.

This image is the result of a collaboration with Ami Barnes. Recently i have wanted to collaborate with another photographer, and last night was the first test run. I wanted to base the performances on re-staging an event for the camera, or re-enactments. We talked about our earliest memories to begin with, and this was one of Ami's, being scared as a child and hiding under a chair.