The Motte and Bailey Castle, Castle Hill, Nether Stowey dates back to 12th century and disappeared around the 16th century. Used mostly today for dog walkers and ramblers to walk around and scramble over. Sheep sometime graze there. There are […]
There is a walk on the Quantocks which I keep going back to. I will become familiar with it throughout the seasons. So far I have enjoyed the winter time walks, the colours especially. The Quantocks are known for the […]
Images and observations whilst walking in the countryside.
This work investigates marginal spaces; overlooked places encountered on a journey to somewhere else. It consists of a series of photographs taken using a mobile phone camera whilst travelling at speed in a train or car, so framing a shot […]
Twin Palms Publishers have just released a new photobook from Mike Brodie, Tones of Dirt and Bone, lifting the lid on the photographer-cum-mechanic’s unseen images of the people he met while hopping trains in the US. Tim Clark is intrigued.
A while back, I made myself a game to play. After chancing upon an slide projector in a charity shop, I started to collect old slides, asking for donations from friends, and buying any I came across in second hand […]
im working on a project based around self image and the fashion industr at the moment but im also looking at old saying such as “you would look good in a black bin bag” and “you look like a sack […]
I’m pondering what this experiment tells me. It’s a photograph of a shadow from my studio space falling onto one of my favourite collages. It connects what I’ve made to architectural space and forms – the shadow of the studio […]
Published to accompany a Tate Britain exhibition, Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860, is a catalogue of rare photographs from the advent of the medium that are both magical and mundane. Tim Clark takes a step back in time.
Framing art practice within an anthropological perspective is related to ideas about the ways in which cultural context contributes to art practice and creativity. Such ideas show how patterns of thought can re-emerge in societies, through the gradual “restructuring of […]
The images I mentioned in my last post, from André Singer’s Night Will Fall, remain so very much and overwhelmingly alive in me, that I haven’t been able to watch any of the other programmes I recorded around Holocaust Memorial […]
Massive cuts are to go ahead at the new £189m Library of Birmingham, but for now at least the library’s Photography Collections’ team is to be saved.
Following an open call, FORMAT International Photography Festival has announced the winners of its EXPOSURE Awards, with the prizewinners exhibiting during this year’s festival in March.
As I found it hard to come back to my project after the Xmas-break I looked at my last post of 2014, to see where I was. My writing always surprises me, I forget what&how I’ve written, marvel at those […]
Chosen from over 400 applicants, Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts have announced the three artists who will each receive £5000 to develop new work.
Since November i have been documenting the regeneration of a building on the A1 into an architectural practice. this building is Art Deco in style and is absolutely stunning. The moment i read this building was to be restored i […]
Urgent whispers ricochet in skull&ribcage, hissed missiles: Why do you bring me back, over and over again? One moment it’s my father speaking, who I drag backwards&forwards in time, without a by-his-leave; the next it is I, compelled to return […]
Songbook, the much anticipated photobook from leading photographer Alec Soth, chronicles the solitary experiences of Americans through a blend of lyrical portraits and empty landscapes. Tim Clark considers the images of those longing for connection in an era of virtual networks.
This is the place for Dex Hannon of the Broken Toy Company.
Last year I was contacted by Calvendo to produce a calendar of my photography. It gave me the opportunity to promote my work in a different way. It was also a lot of fun. Well worth giving a go.
