Project Development: Location Shoot One

Having looked through my old research, such as 'Hurry up and Wait' and 'The Great North Road' the most successful images in those books are the portraits of the people that the artists encounter. Through driving and owning and maintaining a car, I have met a lot of people that are associated with road travel, and I feel that visiting and shooting them is a relevant part of my project, and something that I can expand into.

I decided to visit my mechanic, as he is a big part of my driving life, and I felt that he would make for an interesting set of portraits.

These four images are the best I took, and as it was raining and he was busy, I didn't get the chance to take too many more! I think that, from a viewers perspective, images of people that I come across and deal with over the course of my journeys make for more interesting portraits than my passengers. I am beginning to realise that I am going to have to expand my project a little to include more of these types of images. I plan to keep some key portraits of my passengers, but concentrate more on the roadside services.

Collection Idea 2 - Windscreen shots

Over the course of the last few months, I have been shooting a few images out of the windscreen and have begun to build up a fairly large collection, to compliment the sign collection and work with rest of the images to give my work a sense of motion and progression.

I think these work well together, and give the series a sense of time passing, with different weathers and locations adding interest.

Sixth Trip - Dartmoor

I have decided, following the success of the previous trip, to stick to more rural roads. I drove through Dartmoor and am fairly pleased with the results. I stuck to photographing the three main subjects; passengers, scenery and for the collections.

I am beginning to feel that I am getting some strong landscape images from my latest shoots, and the portrait photos are coming along well. They are looking more candid, and less posed which makes a lot of difference. Having looked at the posed sets, I feel that this style is much more interesting. Roadside encounters such as these are interesting to look at but make for more personal and intimate images too.