New directions

Feedback from 'Under the Stares' was pretty good but there was a feeling that I hadn't finished it yet. That I could push myself further. 

I was shown Richard Billingham's work, especially his 'Ray's a laugh' piece, where Billington photographed his family who were all alcoholics living in a council house. 

Abi Silverthorn writes a great review of him - "Each picture is gorgeous; framed well, saturating the light, placing subjects in pleasing ways. The muses: his alcoholic father, Ray, his mother, Liz, and the council flat he grew up in with his brother in the Midlands. In his own words, he took them to capture and convey his own feelings about that time and place, and people, rather than continue to hide it from his peers. Not buried, but excavated, illuminated with glass and shutter speed and his gaze, re-working old sore sights into something within his own control."

I love his photography, he's so raw and frames each piece so well. feedback also took me to looking at voodoo masks, dazzle ships and camouflage, especially people blending into the world around them, becoming the furniture and background. 

So with Richard Billingham in mind I decided to look at the chaos that surrounds me, all the things that I have going on.