Stay the Same

  • Is this an endurance test?

    I am a third of the way through the project and the challenges of this project are now far more apparent even if the nature of the final film isn’t! My friend Jamie who is an avid mountaineer sent me a link to the film below which he saw at the last Mountain Film Festival.…

  • Laurel Nakadate

    I’ve just discovered the work of Laurel Nakadate who took a photo of herself crying every day for a year. When lonely men approach her on the street she goes to their homes and makes videos of herself dancing with them. Her work is scary and powerful and very much on the edge. I stumbled…

  • Tape number 13

    I don’t like to think of myself as a superstitious person. Today I started tape number 13. I thought about not having a tape 13 for the film, but that would be being superstitious. For the first time in the project I couldn’t film because the rain was coming so hard at the camera and…

  • Things to be thankful for

    There is an irony in moving to a really remote place for a quieter pace of life only to find you just have to do more travelling, which was what had happened by the time I started this project. I was exhausted by it. I also felt I had no real idea of whether this…

  • Trying to fast forward

    We have just passed the equinox and I am now a quarter of the way through which seems quite incredible. Yesterday was the first day I didn’t need a light filter, and the sun, which was straight in my eyes just a month ago, is now tucked behind the trees. The light is changing rapidly.…

  • You too can be part of the experience . . .

    Imagine a world where we all take pictures of ourselves every day . . . . . detecting early signs of illness, predicting future aging patterns, recording mental and emotional breakdown. The possibilities are endless. 🙂

  • Mind in Overdrive

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  • On death and dying

    At sixth form college in Walthamstow my A-level philosophy teacher, Mr Ellis, came in one day looking depressed. He told us he had spent most of the night before writing a list of all the books he wanted to read and had then calculated that even if he read every waking moment from now on…

  • Putting things in context

    This is a great article on self portraiture and contemporary photography. This project is having such an impact on my life it is hard not to keep asking (and being asked) why? It is a relief, to find that work I am doing in what feels like complete isolation has connections to wider trends. I…

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