With View from
a Bridge I wanted to take a recording of a place I loved. What came
out of this was a set of photographs and notes showing change and
consistency. For me the beauty and the grit of the place stand out,
as does the quiet, solid presence of Black Combe.
2001 was an
interesting year. It began with a traumatic New Year's Eve Party
and ended with me knowing I would be leaving Walney soon for Glasgow.
The one constant in the year was the daily photograph, and the process
of recording a small part of a place.
The way the
project was set up was important. I wanted to ensure the photographs
were not staged, but came about at whatever time of day I happened
to be on the bridge. Similarly using the automatic cameras ensured
no artistic meddling in the recording. The balance to this was the
notes I made each day, which give my own subjective slant on the
day or the view or both.
The notes of
each day are interesting: what the camera recorded was not necessarily
what I saw, so when people look at the photographs and then read
the notes, they are really comparing two different, but similar
things.