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Charterhouse - How I started night photography
[1981-83]
 
I became interested in night
photography as a schoolboy and by accident. I was very interested in astronomy
and remember taking a photograph of Cassiopeia rising over a group of trees,
purely as a record shot. When the film came back from the lab the trees came out
orange because of street lighting and I couldn't believe the effect! My school's
art department was very imaginatively run and really encouraged my photography .
I basically spent all my free time for the next two years either looking at the
sky or taking photographs. Even today the smell of hypo (fixer) instantly takes
me back to the Studio darkroom. At the time I was also really lucky
to have access to a good
observatory.
I have resurrected seven favourite shots from that time at Charterhouse
(1981-83), these images have basically spent two decades in a drawer. Looking at
them now it seems like they were taken by somebody else, so much time has gone
by, but I confess they still give me pleasure. |
Buckingham - Student photography in a
small town [1984-86]
    
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