For one reason or another, I’ve been stuck at home for most of the last three years. Health matters and the pandemic have kept me away from many of the things I would normally do. Two other projects on here - “Ordinary Things” and “Urban Fragments” - have the same feeling, i.e. that this is all I’ve got at the moment. I can’t walk much; I guess I’ve become quite reclusive. So, while I find myself driven to take photographs, or make them (toss your own coin there), I have only my home and anywhere nearby that I can drive within 20 metres of to choose from. I’ve taken to using my cameras as instruments to practice my perception, without seeking to expand it or intentionally follow a specific idea. I think I prefer vague ideas at the moment, they don’t impose a succeed / fail paradigm.
Many of these images are, in fact, dull. ‘Look at the dullness of the world’, they say. Occasionally it may look unusual, or a certain atmosphere can be perceived, and perhaps seen even on a negative. But photographs don’t have to have a hyper-real gloss, nor flatter their content. They don’t need a ‘wow’ factor. So these photos show my current world, a world without ‘wow’.