Recollection. Paris Exhibition

I'm pleased to announce that I will be part of a group exhibition titled 'Recollection' which will be opening in Paris this Friday with friends and colleagues from the photo-collective 'Get The Picture'. Work from several of my American projects will be shown along with my 'Cage' series. If you're in Paris for Paris Photo, please feel free to come along to the opening on the evening of the 15th. Many thanks to Damien Lafargue for his tireless energy, focus and enthusiasm and also to curator Myriam Barchechat.

RECOLLECTION, a group show at Superette Gallery with the works of Harvey Benge, Marcus Haydock, Nicolas Hosteing, Simon Kossoff, Paul Kwiatkowski, Damien Lafargue and Simon Letourneau, curated by Myriam Barchechat.

Exposition du 16 novembre 2013 au 28 février 2014

Superette Gallery

104 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière

75010 Paris.

Opening reception on November 15th at 6:30 pm

Recent Overland Park.

Here are some semi recent photographs which continue my on-going project made in Overland Park. I have well over 200 images in this series now which have all been made over the last couple of years. Regular followers of this blog will know that many images from this project have been posted here over this time and is on the whole largely still unedited. It has been a series which I have felt my way through more than anything else and it has at times acted like a sort of diary from home. Sometimes I have responded closely to the original brief I gave myself and at other times it has been something of an experiment and a place to exercise creativity and explore larger idea's about America. It has also been a way for me to align myself psychically with place. These new photographs, however, are more personal in nature.

I Have Always Been Here Before

Thursday January 23rd marked five years since I arrived in America. Over this time I have been fortunate enough to visit 29 of it's States and been able to make photographs in most of them. It is this journey which I have documented (sporadically) here in this blog. America has come as one of the great inspirations of my life, both personally and artistically. With a profound feeling of both strangeness and familiarity it has often crossed my mind, that, in whatever previous incarnation I might have had, traveling to America is a journey which I have somehow always ended up making. It echo's right through me too, out of viscera and into dreams, with images of a flickering succession of sea vessels, down through the wormhole of history and back to it's discovery. Now Today, with a strange sense of deja vu, I heard myself whisper; "I have always been here before".