Coincidence Book

I have organised the information collected through my coincidence survey. My aim is to present this information in a small book. This is an extension of my experiments with presenting the coincidence stories next to collaged illustrations.

I have picked out the stories and quotes that have the most impact and arranged them opposite photographs. The photographs were taken on my Diana mini lomography camera which allows double exposures. In this way the images taken have two layers which coincide in an unpredictable way, it is not therefore their content but the way they are taken that is important in this context. I did however choose to photograph crowds of people as I wished to show the complexity created when people coincide. I have mocked up an initial book (pictured here) which will be refined before being printed finally.

Daniel Eatock

Daniel Eatock has proved an inspiration to me particularly his ongoing photo journal ‘photo of the week’. In these photo’s and throughout his work he shows how coincidences occur in the world around us, depicting them in a simple and humorous way, on his website he states: ‘I seek alignments, paradoxes, chance circumstance, loops, impossibilities and wit encountered in everyday life.’ The simplicity in which he presents his work, no frills just raw ideas and lots of them has shown me the possibility in making connections through photography and how an idea can be realised with less fuss than I am inclined towards, but with great results.

http://www.danieleatock.com/

Nearly Different

By manipulating these old family photographs of my grandparents and father as a baby I am trying to visualise the idea that it all could have been different, if one little decision was made differently, our reality could be something else entirely, that is if we exist still at all. I am interested in trying to bring this to attention in order to highlight how improbable the world in the form it appears to us. This rather crude depiction shows the real photograph and also an altered one where a different man is in my grandfathers place and my father is blurred out.

Screen Printing Experiments

Intersection Screen Prints

I have made screen prints using the photos depicting the intersections between people as an explanation of how chance works. I've overlaid text and experimented with image and background colours. This is a real example of how my work has developed through a process as the final look of the images is all a result of trial or accident.