Zib Edgley, facing the breeze. Frome, Somerset. 1989.Sebastian Mera, Duckspool, Somerset. 1989.
Pt-pd print on 100% cellulose (Buxton paper) from original 8×10 negative.
This photograph of a childhood friend (Zib, her sister Katie and I all finished up our high school years together at Friends School, Saffron Walden), was made during the same Duckspool trip that I photographed Sebastian, and the Bathroom Window. Buxton can be a quirky paper, as is apparent in the highlight tones on Zib’s face. These irregularities have only shown up in certain production batches and may have to do with inconsistent sizing.
5 responses to “Scans from Prints 12”
Utterly irrelevant, this, but: did the Friends school play hockey against Alleyne’s Grammar in Stevenage? We used to play against a Quaker school in the ’70s, and always envied the obvious lack of uptightness about hair-length, etc. The atmosphere there was rather special, and I’m wondering if it was in fact your school?
Mike
Mike – I think we did. Our characteristic was the slack attitude, for sure. 🙂
I’ll try and find out more details. I was there from 74-76. What a small world.
Well… We were a comprehensive post-68, and really just a bunch of hooligans. I left in ’72, but I have a strong recollection of a lovely February morning at the Friends School in 1971, bright and cold, standing idly as goalkeeper, watching the action at the far end of the field, thinking, “This is a perfect moment in a perfect place; I will always remember this…”
Mike
Wow. Seeing all these pieces from the late 1980’s has transported me back … I am so grateful to you for the magic door you opened for us all : light bursting forth , caressing , shattering , screaming , whispering, undulating , etching , and most crucially:
revealing that which is invisible in the world Allan B Jones , age 46 , still searching for epiphanies in oil paint, and still a student of Mr Malde !
Mike – you are right – FSSW was really magical, and especially the walks around the playing fields. And Allan – thank you, but the feeling about opening doors and minds and hearts is mutual!! 🙂