The English Abroad

Wow can't believe it's been a YEAR since I last updated the blog....here's my New Year resolution..."I will post 1 new image every Month till next September"

So, starting Sept 11 here's an image from a couple of years ago, one of a number I made during a family holiday in Brittany. How typical is that....The English Abroad.

So, it's been an interesting year so far, not much time for darkroom work as proper work has been getting in the way, time to readress the balance methinks.

It was American Photographer Walker Evans, amongst others who had a preoccupation with painted signs, photographing them as early as 1928. Signs in isolation- see Luna Park, New York c1929 - and signs juxtaposed with well observed incidents usually involving people - see Truck and Sign, New York, 1930.

Even before I became aware of American Photographers like Walker Evans and Robert Frank I have always been drawn to photographing signs and this one just leapt out at me earlier this year when the circus visited our campsite in Brittany.