#33 INGREDIENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL PHOTO PROJECT
So another week. They come round fast don’t they? Usually at the weekend and particularly during the summer, I’m out photographing somebody’s nuptials at least for one of the days. But of course these days I’m used to seeing the word ‘postponed’ next to photographic weekend diary events, although the wedding industry in the UK where I’m based is starting to tentatively say yes to “I do,” but with strict social distancing, an anti-hug dictate and rules in place that right now make receptions or if you will, the cocktail hour, a no go; it’s not exactly enthusing couples to wed., understandably.
We start the week in photo project mode talking to the architect of the Lifeboat Station Project, Jack Lowe, whose eight year mission to make portraits and documentary accounts of every Royal National Lifeboat Institution boathouse in the UK and Ireland has captured my imagination. It’s the method by which he works that fascinates me most; he has chosen to work with a ‘wet plate’ method using a camera that is over one hundred years old.
Welcome to the long tail project that will have you feeling nostalgic for photographic ways of the past, but inspired by Jack’s repurposing use for a modern message.
