Leanne Trivett S. Welcome to a new chapter in celebrating the greatness and diversity of portrait photography. A Jackson Pollock patterned shoe is suspended on a wall of weathered boards, the shadowy orange evening light projects the shadow of a man in a hat and raincoat reaching for the shoe.
In a flash this picture throws up a story that the viewer is coaxed to resolve. I have supplied you with the narrative elements please finish it off for me.
There is something attracting and repelling at the same time about the picture. It is the summer of and eighteen months after taking up photography I have found my real style as a photographer.
The work is as dark and as troubled as I am at the time. I am trying to resolve inner turmoil by putting ideas down on film but it is not cathartic, quite the opposite, in fact, it forces me to turn inward, a place where I am unhappy to be.
I like the pictures though, I like being on the imaginative edge, I like photographing outdoors, I like these derelict buildings next to Battersea Power Station which I use as an open air studio, I like the warm evening light and have determined to use the long shadows thrown by a westering sun, I like the view of the River Thames from the rooftops β as a result there are plenty of blue skies in my work, I like the fact that nearly all the pictures I set out to take, work.
