Category: Counterculture project

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x7qg43v7o

Responding to the Counterculture brief, I was interested in exploring the countercultural movement behind the right to roam, and the potential loss of our freedom to roam in the UK. As someone who grew up in a rural area, I acutely feel the impact of that loss, however I wanted viewers of all backgrounds to…

“Maps are embedded in a history they help construct”  “every view is but one perspective on the common scene” – Denis Wood, The Power of Maps Our experiences colour our perspectives- how objective are the maps we have created, and how do they change with different purposes and viewpoints? How have maps evolved with us,…

These are finished images I created in the darkroom and intend to present as part of my project.  Since they are slightly different media, I want to present them in a way that unifies them, perhaps in a video/ slide show format. I hope that the theme of ‘routes’ will be conveyed, and that viewers…

The black and white darkroom facility  Today I had a morning in the darkroom where I printed two photographs from my previously developed negatives. The first photograph I printed was an image of a street in the fog, so it was quite difficult to decide on the appropriate tonal values that the print should have. As…

Alison Lloyd, Ramsey Moor, Derbyshire, 11 January 2020 In contrast to the straight line walking of Simon Faithfull’s ‘0°00 Navigation’, Alison Lloyd practiced a method of consciously walking the contours of a landscape. In her own words: “the term ‘contouring’ has become a verb that denotes my primary method of practising walking art. Contouring reflects…

I’m focusing on scanning my negatives today. High resolution scans can take a long time (about one hour per set of twelve) but once they’re done, I’ll be able to print them at larger sizes. I’ll have the option of printing them digitally or through an analogue process in the darkroom. For now I’ve printed…

A contact sheet of my developed negatives  Not all of my negatives came out well but I took the opportunity to make contact sheets so I could have a convenient way of viewing them and deciding which to develop. It’ll also help me assess my process and make choices for the next set.Looking at them on…

Image from ‘Liverpool to Liverpool’ Simon Faithful is a British artist based in Berlin. His work explores the use of walking as a medium- linking metaphorical and physical movement, as well as examining human interaction with the geographical environment. He often takes a novel and playful approach. ‘0°00 Navigation’ is a series of video works…

Starting location of my own soundwalk Andrew Brown works with locative sound. He carries out soundwalks (an excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment), where he records sounds and composes multi-layered montages of them. The act of purposeful listening becomes a way of focusing on the often overlooked, as well as situating oneself…