Welcome
to Simons Wood is a photographic project from 2010-2011. As many
of you will know it follows on from the previous years project
Perambulation and attempts to explore the idea of creating a
reality of a place through photography.
This
year long project was subject to a number of blog posts and
discussions. The idea of reflecting reality was one I explored first
with Perambulation, however that while that project proved
interesting I didn't feel it truly managed to find any kind of
objective reality.
I
continue to debate if a true and objective representation of a place
is possible. However Welcome to Simons Wood I feel may have
come as close as I can with photography alone. Narrow in focus, it
shows the same view of the same place over the space of a year. This
was controlled through a series of rules that can be found below.
Rules
1.
As from the previous
project, there will be no post production editing of the photographs.
With the exception of cropping and resizing for the internet.
2.
The camera will be set to scenery mode, and the only setting on it I
can change will be the white balance to the appropriate weather
conditions (either cloudy or sunny)
3.
I will go out when I should, no matter the weather at the time.
4.
I will go to the same place and take a photo of the same view
5.
I will go out weekly, Saturday at 12pm.
6.
I may change the day (but not the time) if life conspires to make
Saturday impossible. The day should be as close to Saturday as I can
make it and I should make every effort to do it on a Saturday.
7.
I will attempt to do this for a year.
After
the projects completion I always intended to do something with it
beyond a record of the images on Flickr. As I have previously
discussed I always fancied doing a photobook.
So here
I present Welcome to Simons Wood published!
It is
paperback, full colour, 109 pages and 18 x 23cm. It has a large page
count to allow each of the 53 images to stand entirely on their own.
Plus it also does that flipbook thing so you can watch the year
change at speed.
If thats enough to tempt you, you can
purchase it here.
If not click on the image of the cover to learn more about the book.
