The White Whale is a series of colour photographs taken in the south west of England. The title of the series takes its inspiration from the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville, a tale of one man’s obsessive quest to hunt a mythical white whale. In the novel,...
INTRODUCTION When we first formed the Inside the Outside collective we had a clear vision of the type of photographic work we as a group were ourselves driven to create and the work of others we wanted to share. Paraphrasing from our collective’s statement...
Elutriate: To purify, separate, or remove by washing. To purify by straining. I am in the back seat of my father’s car. I am sitting next to the window. My elbow is digging into the arm rest and I am pressed firmly against the door. No one in my...
‘Salt off the sea whets the blades of four winds. They peel acres of locked rock, pare down a rind of shrivelled ground; bull-noses are chiselled on cliffs.’ Seamus Heaney, from ‘Synge on Aran’ No matter the point of origin and regardless of...
Having explored Scotland extensively over the years, the South West of Argyll & Bute remained the only large area I’d never visited. Notes from the South West follows a ‘road trip’ through the area over 5 days in 2016. My journey took me southwest to Oban, down...
