Thomas Scott (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thomascott) wrote,@ 2008-02-07 20:09:00 |
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Newspaper cuts
Things were grim back in Summer 2002, my partner Ruth and I had left Dublin to escape high rents and burnt-out cars and had moved to the sticks.
Ruth had given up here Dublin job and was searching for work whilst I - wearied of being skilled but miserably paid - had set up my own business and was trying to make enough to beat the wolves back.
In July however Ruth got some tax back from her previous employ so she decided to invest it sensibly... by blowing it all on a trip to Paris.
We had no chairs but we had Paris in August.
The above pictures were shot on an old East German Praktica with 50 and 35mm lenses, the roll of XP2 they were taken on got lost after the holiday and only surfaced last week. During the interim it had travelled around 10,000 miles with us and had probably endured temperatures extremes between minus 20 and plus 30 degrees .
A combination of six years inclement storage and some rather mediocre scanning has produced the results shown.
I rather like the peculiar cut-from-old-newspapers effect; I have no memory of taking any of the pictures shown and their newsprint appearance suits my association with them and the time between.
Things were grim back in Summer 2002, my partner Ruth and I had left Dublin to escape high rents and burnt-out cars and had moved to the sticks.
Ruth had given up here Dublin job and was searching for work whilst I - wearied of being skilled but miserably paid - had set up my own business and was trying to make enough to beat the wolves back.
In July however Ruth got some tax back from her previous employ so she decided to invest it sensibly... by blowing it all on a trip to Paris.
We had no chairs but we had Paris in August.
The above pictures were shot on an old East German Praktica with 50 and 35mm lenses, the roll of XP2 they were taken on got lost after the holiday and only surfaced last week. During the interim it had travelled around 10,000 miles with us and had probably endured temperatures extremes between minus 20 and plus 30 degrees .
A combination of six years inclement storage and some rather mediocre scanning has produced the results shown.
I rather like the peculiar cut-from-old-newspapers effect; I have no memory of taking any of the pictures shown and their newsprint appearance suits my association with them and the time between.
