Paul Kenny

One of my favourite British B&W photographers – I found his work several years ago, then lost his name… found an article on him in a magazine this evening.  Large Format, very old kit, great simplicity and dramatic printing.

Paul Kenny - sea stone no 7

See how long it takes you to articulate a connection between his work and the three themes – edge, chaos, and identity.  Easy, isn’t it.

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Chaos/Edge

Anyone out there doing something with rain patterns?  Just looking out the window at the squalls coming across Swanage Bay (OK, I have to squint between the buildings on the other side of the road, but the Isle of Wight is there some days…), and if you’re up for braving the weather, and take care to keep camera dry (thick bin liners are good), then there is much work to be done.  Lens hoods help keep rain drops off the lens too. really important – it’s very hard to clone drop marks off an image – just easier to keep lesn cap in hand and shut up lens in between shots.  that and keeping lens pointed down is good.

This would be a chance to practice with some Harold Edgerton high speed flash stuff – something Ross seems to have mastered, if you want to know how to do it.  Er – flash and water.  How can I put this…?  Keep everything very very dry – lots of volt things flying around in an electric flash. Maybe look for a puddle just by the door….

Patterns made and broken, colours and form distorted through vertical water on glass.  There is a part of Swanage beach where – if the swell is just swell – we get a cruciform wave, as two waves at right angles run through each other.  Ok – that’s not chaos, but just before or after?

Maybe waves have an identity too.  Wave forms underlay the identity of all energy and matter in the universe, apparently.

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