Mine is generally chaotic, random, often hurried, garish, looking for chance events and I'm on my feet for ten hours in a single stretch and may take 1000 images and generally need instant gratification. Even if I plan a piece of work, it still all happens at 100 mph, only to find when I get back that I mis-framed something, got stuck on the wrong ISO and so on. The biggest challenge for me is learning to slow down and look more carefully.
Crone's approach entirely the opposite. He showed some images at a Crossing Lines meeting at the start of the month of a series that he is working on entitled "On Common Ground" in which he explores the memories of his childhood on the Kent coast and time spent with his father. The result of this is a series of beautifully composed and exposed images which are very delicately balanced, peaceful and calm. I really like the sense of space in this scenes; they provide such a welcome relief and escape from the chaos and clutter of my own life!
Crone's approach is as follows (quote):
"The camera is an Ebony SLW810 (made in Japan) and takes sheet film up to 8" x 10". My film preference is Ilford's HP5 Plus. I usually develop 2 sheets at a time in a drum processor. Once dry they are contact printed, trimmed and simply mounted as you saw at Crossing Lines. Contacted printing (by tradition) is probably the simplest form of printing as the light sensitive paper is just exposed to light (usually just an ordinary light bulb) and processed in standard print developing chemicals used in most darkroom set ups."
This is the camera:
And here are some of the images:
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| Epple Bay (c) Trevor Crone |
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| Minnis Bay (c) Trevor Crone |
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| Palm Bay (c) Trevor Crone |
I really hope he shows them publicly one day!
Websites:
- Crossing Lines available from http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/vurbanism/crossing%20lines/ [accessed 17 October 2014]
- Dave Mason Images available from http://www.davemasonimages.com/ [accessed 17 October 2014]
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