Moving through

After 20 years of silence I realised the thing in my pocket was what I was reluctantly looking for. I travel a fare amount and I was tired of bulky cameras and digital never living up to my expectations. The clarity in the composition is important to me (analog or digital) I choose to never overly manipulate the viewer. What you see is what you get. In the 2000’s the polaroid was my shooting tool of choice, my exemplar of this, Walker Evans called the Polaroid “a kind of copying machine”. Digital never seemed to master that - it was like a sensible over complicated, mature option. Any error easily wiped out and manipulated. Something born, for our on-coming social age of perfection. I realised, the one thing that had stayed with me was the phone in my pocket, capturing the world as I travelled through it. Snapping away, I had no judgement on its ability. A mass produced machine, thrills, but not too many, not quite good enough, but still good and getting better. Producing instant moments in its own way, not unlike its instant counter-part the Polaroid. So this series is born out of waiting for the world of Analogue to sort itself out, whilst having to keep on moving through it and in the meantime wanting to take pictures as honestly and unimposing as I could.