Projects are a good way to home your photographic skills, whether they take an hour or a lifetime to complete. Often they can emerge from seemingly unrelated subjects...
A couple of weeks ago, I was on holiday with my wife and friends at Pembrokeshire, Wales. A lovely place that I hadn't been to for 28 years. Whilst walking on a beach called freshwater West, I was shocked to see so much rubbish that had been washed up along the shoreline, due to the storms that had been battering Briton over the winter months. Most of it was plastic based items, most likely discarded from ships; plastic bottles, nets, lighters, rope and the like but I also noticed a large quantity of old shoes. And so, a mini project begun to form!
Even though the original images were shot in colour, I felt that mono would be a more fitting media for such discarded footwear. I wonder who they belonged to and where they had 'walked' ?
A couple of weeks ago, I was on holiday with my wife and friends at Pembrokeshire, Wales. A lovely place that I hadn't been to for 28 years. Whilst walking on a beach called freshwater West, I was shocked to see so much rubbish that had been washed up along the shoreline, due to the storms that had been battering Briton over the winter months. Most of it was plastic based items, most likely discarded from ships; plastic bottles, nets, lighters, rope and the like but I also noticed a large quantity of old shoes. And so, a mini project begun to form!
Even though the original images were shot in colour, I felt that mono would be a more fitting media for such discarded footwear. I wonder who they belonged to and where they had 'walked' ?
