Wednesday 25 May 2011

Frosty morning. Kodachrome 25 film

December 2010, as the sun came up over Leckhampton Hill, I shot these pictures on Kodachrome film. It is now discontinued, and the only lab in the world was about to close down its K 14 processing, so I had to use up my last roll of that iconic film in order to get it to Kansas USA before the deadline.


Cheltenham West End (part two)





Cheltenham West End (part one)

This is a series of photographs I shot on Kodachrome 25 film in November 2010. I wanted to portray the variety of illumination from the different shops. Most of them are to do with food & drink. This part of Cheltenham is historically interesting, but unexceptional on another level. The mundane nature of these businesses seems to sum it up. There is the nature of Hopper paintings in the emptiness of a lit up shop standing out in the dark