Time to catch up...

The last week or so has been very hectic finishing off my dissertation so not much has progressed for actual practical work but the good news is that I have 4 or 5 new models ready to shoot in the next couple of weeks.

I've also got my computer fixed, finally! But even better news than that is that I haven't lost the shots from the first shoot with Linxi, They will be posted online this week.

I've also just got a new job working as photographer for www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk which will allow me to shoot some of the bigger bands at the Apollo and Machester Evening News Arena along with smaller gigs at The Academy. All of which will be great experience in a real journalistic context. I will be working to tight deadlines and will have to get the best shots of the bands and artists i'm shooting.

I'm currently reading the Cindy Sherman book 'October Files' - it s a series of essays written about the themes Sherman uses in her photography. In the book the second essay written by Douglas Cramp says something which I find really interesting:

The photographic activity of postmodernism operates, as we might expect, in complicity with these modes of photography-as-art, but it does so only in order to subvert or exceed them. And it does so precisely in relation to the Aura, not, however, to recuperate it, but to displace it, to show that it is too now only an aspect of the copy, not the original. A group of young artists working with photography have addressed photography's claims to originality, showing those claims for the fiction they are, showing photography to always a 're'presentation, always-already-seen. Their images are purloined, confiscated, appropriated, stolen. In their work, the original cannot be located, is always deferred; even the self that might have generated an orignal is shown itself to be a copy.
Douglas Cramp 'The Photographic Activity Of Postmodernism'

Reading that back makes so much sense, and even though I've never thought about my work like that before I believe the statement to be true and I want to explore it further.