Loughborough University School of Art and Design : Scenes of the Unexpected
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welcome to Pixel and Grain

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an on-line off-line photographic gallery

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John Edwards : "Is there an uncanny side to Loughborough?"
Something is not quite right.
Its unfamiliar in such a way as to make one feel uneasy.
Its uncanny.


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A bus stop, a house and parked car, a gate to a pathway, an electrical substation all take on a threatening air. What is happening behind the curtains and locked doors, what lies through the gate and up the pathway, is something a foot in the dark black spaces.
These mundane night scenes encourage the viewer to form a narrative themselves, as if they are single frames from a film where the normality is unnerving.
Artificial lighting, as used in film creates a sculpting of the subject that helps to give the impression of depth required to overcome the 2D nature of the projected image. It is this reference in urban night photography that produces a weird feeling and leads the viewer to begin to seek reasons for such mundane images.
For me, the more mundane the subject matter the more mysterious/uncanny the image.

In the light of this statement, the image of the lonely path and prone body will seem out of place. This image is part of an experimental series of shots I took in an attempt to create a "still film": a series of 4 or 5 shots that created a murder/mystery narrative. The technical quality of the other images in this series let down this idea due to the long exposure times involved in night photography.
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