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PHOTO PROJECT 20:

THE WALK

A

s photographers

we’ve been roaming

the streets,

countryside and

beyond since we can remember,

but rarely with a structured plan

to guide us or to tell us when to

stop. Walking, however, is a

fantastic way to generate

images if you’ve got the

explorer bug, and provides

natural closure to any project.

For this assignment we’re

going to devise and prepare

a walk that provides us with a

finite beginning and end, which

in turn will allow us maximum

creative licence in between.

For the outcome, we’re going

to consider how we can retell

our photographic story using

one of three possible forms:

the book, the audio slideshow

or the photoblog.

2 ALONG THE ESTUARY

Before the summer season kicks off, many of our most visited

locations are empty and ready to explore. Winter beaches provide

a fascinating territory for a project and when coupled with a

raking low-angle winter sun can show themselves in a completely

different light.

Visit a popular place and try to find another way of seeing it,

as in this example where the sand was covered in ice and frozen

water. Thomas Joshua Cooper’s epic photographs of Iceland are

well worth a look and although they go beyond most of our travel

destinations, provide a glimpse into a strange, unseen world.

Jim Rice’s gritty photobook, Deptford Creek, crystallised a lesser-

known area of London and the Thames estuary when it was

published back in 1993. Rice picked up on the historical backstory

of the area which established itself as Henry VIII’s royal dockyard

in 1513, finding it still richly textured but captured just before it was

about to change.

Seek out a lesser-known area of your local river and see if there’s

an untold story waiting to be found. In this example, low tide on

the river Camel reveals the tracks from a local sea-sand digging

business making spectacular marks in the mud.

If you’re keen on exploring the great outdoors, then why not devise a photo project

that you can work on at the same time? Tim Daly puts you through your paces.

All images © Tim Daly

SECTION 1: THEME IDEAS

Choose an idea and a territory that you have easy access to and consider your travel times to and from your likely

destinations. Don’t think too literally about keeping to a route; it can be as much about what you see off the beaten track too.

TECHNIQUE

1 OUT OF SEASON

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