So I was just going through my mail from last week when I was at the C4FAP for the opening of Center Forward and I had a big envelop – my copy of SHOTS magazine, issue 133, “Still Life”. And I would probably have fallen off my chair reading it had my friend Amy Kanka Valadarsky not messaged me during the night to tell me about it – cause it features a new photograph of mine!

The photograph is tentatively called “I lost my mind” and is part of the exploratory work for my new series “Blood Line”. It’s not currently part of the body of work itself, at least not yet. It might evolve to be but I don’t want to give too much away yet of how/why – so for now let’s just agree that I don’t know! 🙂
It’s very unlike me to photograph a still life. VERY unlike me. But I’ve recently shot a few – felt almost an urge to do so. So I’m a little bit in shock to see it in SHOTS. And very grateful obviously!

The original shot is actually in colour and looks like this

It had been a while that I had last submitted to SWPP, so I’m pretty chuffed to have just received a Gold Award in the Open Avant Garde category for this image!