Norwich in flames

Norwich in flames

Rephotography, The Blitz

Norwich in Flames: Here are a selection of George Swain’s camera melting exploits. Originally photographed in Black and White. I colourised these, based on looking at modern colour photos of fires and then painting them in, very simply to be honest. They depict...
Vanishing point: Berlin Sap

Vanishing point: Berlin Sap

Vanishing Points

It looks like a field, because it is a field, one that slopes gently up to a low ridge, 60 metres at its highest point, best appreciated either from a mile or so back in the open areas behind the old line. It looks like nothing much, close up it is just a slope and...
Vanishing Point: Essex Farm, The Eve brothers

Vanishing Point: Essex Farm, The Eve brothers

Vanishing Points

I’m fortunate, I get to go to Ypres and the Somme and indeed various other bits of the Western Front fairly often, I do it mostly for my own vicarious pleasure/misery or whatever you find you want to call it. If I face facts it is I suppose a strange thing to...
Vanishing Point: Rosebeke

Vanishing Point: Rosebeke

Persistence of memory, Vanishing Points

A strange day. I’ve been working very loosely on an ongoing project called ‘Vanishing Points’ for a while. I’m a bit of a fan of VPs, lots of artists are as a way of leading the eye into compositions, focussing the viewers mind. Kubrick for...
Lost in a Landscape: Pleasure beach

Lost in a Landscape: Pleasure beach

Lost in a landscape

An set of photos from 2009, taken during a phase of producing ‘candids’ or ‘street’ photos, it’s an alleged art-form that involves trying to take photos of people in an interesting way without them realising and not getting your head...