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'Through a train window'
This is an impressionistic record of a journey across France, recording changing light, distance and time through the frame of a train window. In December 2008 I traveled from London to Perpignan in the south west of France. During the outward journey I constructed a Sharan pinhole camera from a cardboard kit. On the return trip, I used this camera to record my progress northwards, placing the camera on the inside ledge of the window next to my seat.
We set off before dawn and gradually traveled throughout the day, finally reaching England after sunset. Every time the train stopped I took a shot, gradually reducing the exposure as the daylight increased. I liked the fact that the markings on the cardboard camera were recorded as reflections on the glass pane of the train window. Two frames became visible - one of the window frame and another of the camera itself.
Featured in Lip Magazine, Winter 2009
London Independent Photography magazine
This is an impressionistic record of a journey across France, recording changing light, distance and time through the frame of a train window. In December 2008 I traveled from London to Perpignan in the south west of France. During the outward journey I constructed a Sharan pinhole camera from a cardboard kit. On the return trip, I used this camera to record my progress northwards, placing the camera on the inside ledge of the window next to my seat.
We set off before dawn and gradually traveled throughout the day, finally reaching England after sunset. Every time the train stopped I took a shot, gradually reducing the exposure as the daylight increased. I liked the fact that the markings on the cardboard camera were recorded as reflections on the glass pane of the train window. Two frames became visible - one of the window frame and another of the camera itself.
Featured in Lip Magazine, Winter 2009
London Independent Photography magazine
