In 1833 six farm workers in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset, seeing their living standards plummet, combined together to protect their wages. They were prosecuted and transported to Australia. Tens of thousands of protestors set off from Copenhagen Fields (the later site of this clocktower) to petition for their return. Their campaign was successful and the men were freed.
Yearly Archives: 2021
The Hardy Tree
From St Pancras International trains run to places as diverse as Luton, Sheffield and Paris. Just after they have left the station they will pass a small church standing in an old churchyard.
Space
A photograph is an artefact – a flat four sided piece of paper or image on a computer screen. How do you work within those constraints to depict three dimensional space?
Time
A photograph is a 2D representation of a 3D world; it is also an single moment trying to represent a 4D world
The Familiar
As a photographer the familiar can offer a way of exploring somewhere in depth.
“The most solemn and awfull appearance”
A ideologically driven party forms the government and starts splashing the cash on vanity projects.
The Sitter
What was it like to have your photograph in the era before selfies?
Looking up
Turning the camera skywards gives you a different viewpoint
Spring
London in Spring time
On this day 29th March
Added during lockdown, one of my images from my earlier day.