December 2009:
I stumbled around in the pitch black, the feeble rays of my torch illuminating a couple of feet in front of me as I tried to avoid knocking over the camera that was taking long exposure shots of a space I couldn't even see. I occassionally set off the handheld flash; the light blinding me and burning an isolated image onto my retina that lingered for a few seconds as I span round and tiptoed off in the other direction, gingerly stepping over cables and abandoned floorboards. The air was stale and there was a strange sort of damp warmth that the rest of the building lacked, I took off my jumpers and let the darkness wrap its way around me.
Post production notes: I fancied doing something a bit different with this print so I photogrammed in some text from a Thomas Ligotti poem and a dead mouse I found at work. The image has also been solarised and I stuck it through photoshop to try and make the text a bit clearer but most of the legwork took place in the darkroom.
Still can't read it? It's the first verse of I Have a Special Plan for this World by Current 93. Lyrics can be found here.
I stumbled around in the pitch black, the feeble rays of my torch illuminating a couple of feet in front of me as I tried to avoid knocking over the camera that was taking long exposure shots of a space I couldn't even see. I occassionally set off the handheld flash; the light blinding me and burning an isolated image onto my retina that lingered for a few seconds as I span round and tiptoed off in the other direction, gingerly stepping over cables and abandoned floorboards. The air was stale and there was a strange sort of damp warmth that the rest of the building lacked, I took off my jumpers and let the darkness wrap its way around me.
Post production notes: I fancied doing something a bit different with this print so I photogrammed in some text from a Thomas Ligotti poem and a dead mouse I found at work. The image has also been solarised and I stuck it through photoshop to try and make the text a bit clearer but most of the legwork took place in the darkroom.
Still can't read it? It's the first verse of I Have a Special Plan for this World by Current 93. Lyrics can be found here.
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