Mill Town Photograph

Photographs have been made using traditional pinhole photography with a homemade Wooden Camera on photographic direct positive paper and then re-photographed with a digital camera and macro lens to emphasise keys points within the initial pinhole photograph to increase the visual affect for the viewer. Industrial and Technological evolution has provided human beings with an advanced means of production systems that make up our society. These global man-made systems have become un-controlled planet-changing forces. The future of our planet and future generations un-deniably depends on finding a way to manage these systems. I hope to affect my audience through my visual work by evoking a sense of place, space and time. Using various photographic methods, photographs have been repurposed fragmentally to portray an essence of our planet’s degradation. I have focused on the familiar of man’s impact, depicting and reflecting on society from varying points of this change and loss, including this industrial heritage as previous Industrial Mills have been destroyed and replaced with new buildings. The area I have portrayed within my work is Ewood, Blackburn, the place that I have lived for the last 47 years. Historically the Ewood area was predominantly grasslands and woodland. Ewood became part of Blackburn during 1877, when the Blackburn Boundary Extension Act came into existence. As Ewood grew, so did its transportation links, one of which was the canals, as they were required to serve the mills, engineering factories, businesses and the local community. The Canal served the mills, bringing in goods, initially powering the looms and then by taking the finished material goods to be sold. Blackburn was the last town to be connected to the 127 mile long Leeds Liverpool canal in 1810 and on the 27th June 1810, the first barges arrived along the canal. The canal was used to bring in, agricultural produce, raw materials for the cotton and engineering industries and took away the cotton and silks produced. The canal was also used for day trips for the mill workers.

Photography:Black & White on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:5 W x 5 H x 0.1 D in

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