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›In all I spent three days at
the print factory waiting for the
ink to dry. However, I stopped
taking pictures at the end of
the first day. Not because I
had stopped seeing – although
three days of looking at and
photographing pallets could be
quite tiring – but because this
was a one-day project and I
wanted to stick to the time limit.
Knowing I had to get all myimages in a single day brought a
real intensity to my photography.
Stopping at the end of that
first day might also have had
something to do with the factory
staff – they were looking at me
and my fascination for pallets
with more than a growing
sense of bemusement!envisagebooks.com
openstudioworkshops.comTHE REALISATION
How quickly do we normally give up on a subject, believing
it has no potential? After five minutes? Fifteen minutes?
An hour? On this occasion I was forced to live with the
subject (a print factory – this is the press I was working
on) for a whole day, as printing was delayed. Gradually
I noticed more and more previously unseen subjects.
Spending a whole day on the project also gave me time
to download images on to a laptop, to see how my project
idea was developing, before taking further images. This
straight on image will either be an opening or concluding
context-setting picture for my pallet book.‘Knowing I had to get all my images in a single day brought a real intensity to my photography.’