The Art Of Collage (2)
This is not really a collage because it is a straight photograph of torn & randomly placed posters taken on Brick Lane in 2002. I think of it as an ‘accidental collage’. I’ve reworked this original image several times as a collage with other images.
Collage made in 1999 using a combination of photographs taken in Brick Lane.
A collage of Brick Lane using images seperated by 20 years. 2011.
A variation on the theme above. 2011.
Collage made from an image of a torn poster (Brick Lane 2004) and a photograph taken of a family walking on Brick Lane in 1983. The fragment of the family was a darkroom ‘test strip’. I used to keep my test strips (always torn bits of photographic paper) as I thought they might be useful for collage in future years. 2016.
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Liverpool February 2018 (2)
Bold Street Entrance to Central Station. Liverpool, February 2018.
Keeping Bold Street clean. Liverpool, February 2018.
Petition signing against NHS cuts on Bold Street. Liverpool, February 2018.
Waiting for a bus near Picton Clock. Liverpool, February 2018.
Crossing Wavertree High Street. Liverpool, February 2018.
Passing the Rose Vaults pub on Wavertree High Street. Liverpool, February 2018.
Labour Party campaigner on Bold Street. Liverpool, February 2018.
Petition signing against NHS cuts on Bold Street. Liverpool, February 2018.
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The Art Of Collage
I’ve always been interested in using my photographs for collage. Infinite possibilities are opened up when images are brought together. Making collage reminds me of the hands on experience of working in a darkroom but it also enables me to reignite and combine the memories I have of different moments in time. I see collage as a reconstruction of memory, and a moment in time that can often be used to comment on the contemporary world.
The conductor Richard Hickox (conducting Bach’s Mass in B minor). With an anti-racist demonstrator. Detail of a collage made in 1998. Both images were taken in Spitalfields.
Collage with a lift in Denning Point, Commercial St & an image of …. taken in the Golden Heart pub, London 2010.
Collage of a photograph of a man sleeping with his suitcase next to him. Whitechapel Market. East London, 1982.
Collage made using a published photograph taken on commercial Street in 1990.
Collage using a postcard of Tony Blair (which was a collage) & a poster photographed in Brick Lane. 2016.
Collage using an image of brick work (Spitalfields) & 2 photographs taken on Smithdown Road, Liverpool in 1981.
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Liverpool January 2018 (10)
Allerton Road. Liverpool January 2018.
Walking towards Picton Clock. Wavertree High Street. Liverpool January 2018.
Wavertree High Street. Liverpool January 2018.
Wavertree Park. Liverpool January 2018.
Cash machines off Smithdown Road. Liverpool January 2018.
Cyclist on Lawrence Road. Liverpool January 2018.
Picton Road. Liverpool January 2018.
Having a smoke on Lawrence Road. Liverpool January 2018.
Wavertree Park. Liverpool January 2018.
Wavertree High Street. Liverpool January 2018.
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The East End September 2017
Whitechapel High Street. East London, September 2017.
Whitechapel High Street (2). East London, September 2017.
Woman wearing torn jeans on Osborne Street. East London, September 2017.
Spitalfields Market. East London, September 2017.
Tourists on Brick Lane. East London, September 2017.
Tourists on Brick Lane. East London, September 2017.
Hanbury Street. East London, September 2017.
On the steps of the Duke Of Wellington pub in Toynbee Street. East London, September 2017.
Tourists on a walk in Brune Street. East London, September 2017.
Spitalfields Market. East London, September 2017.
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