British photographic history - Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history

British photographic history - Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history

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Now my degree is finished and done with, I'm faced with the difficulties of finding inspiration for new work.
My interest remains with the use of photography in the construction of place (and to a lesser exent identity); "place" being a location given meaning by experience and reflection.

To quote Edward Relph “Places are sensed in a chiaroscuro of setting, landscape, ritual, routine, other people, personal experience, care and concern for home and the context of other places”.

Photography's relationship to "place" was may be eloquently expressed by the Susan Sontag quote, "The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own." This seems largely correct, though it fails to take into account the subjectivity and experience of different viewers.

Tourist photography while doggedly persuing the sublime and the picturesque markedly fails to suggest the availability of any other form of experience. A starting point to any further investigation on my part could be to look further at the "Seaside Surrealism" of Paul Nash.
So let's post an image from this summers travels.