A body of work ... anyone interested?

[JMRead]

 Hello all,

 

I see photographers who work on a particular subject and through that produce a body of work, birds, insects, flowers etc and very difficult they are to concentrate on and make good images. I see single images made upon a theme or a thought but often not as a body of work and I wonder why?

 

This is a link to a series of images that I made I've explained briefly about the why of it on the page;

http://www.jasread.com/1699/

Click on a thumbnail to see the larger image.

 

What's not on the page is my intention in the actual making of the images, my idea was the peripheral images should point or reflect to the centre. As I made each image I had to think of the one(s) adjacent to it.

 

If anyone is interested in tackling a body of work, a series or a sequence of images I would gladly display them on a dedicated website. The software to do this will create a maximum of five large thumbnails across a monitor, so anything from 4 or 6, 9, 10, 12, or 15 images are easy to display.

 

This can be an exciting way of broadening anyone's photographic horizons and if anyone is interested I can expand on the above by suggesting ways of finding a theme.

 

Cheers - Jim

[ChrisLumix]

That's a very interesting project Jem, and well executed. Those mono images work well in the context.

 

My only question is : why use the (common) ivy as the central image, and not the discovered initials that started the whole thing off?

[JMRead]

Hello Chris,

 

Thanks for the questions I'll do my best to answer them, the Ivy is actually a Sycamore sapling that tried to grow in a crevasse, sadly it died this year.

 

The initials record the family who had the house built, they were the landowners they were able pay others to carve their mark on the work they had not carried out. The series is my tribute to those unrecorded men, sounds a but pretentious I know but having been to the site many times I feel a connection with them almost as though I have broken through those intervening 300 years.

 

Best wishes - Jim

 

(my wife is into anagrams, jimread = jemraid)