The Year Ahead (2010)

I hope that 2010 will be an exciting year for me, it has lots of promise. Myla is growing up fast and I think the next year will really see her come in to her own, I'm really looking forward to that time with her.

Simon and I have big plans for Nova Gallery, which should hopefully start to come together in the new year.

I'm also working on a reasonably big personal photo project. It started when I was asked by the creator of The 50 States Project, Stuart Pilkington if I would participate in his new project entitled What is England? It's 48 photographers representing a county around England, photographing their environment in their style. I'm amongst some really great company, I'm thrilled to be listed with them.

This is something I'm very excited about and have decided to expand on. So I will be contributing to the project (6 themes throughout 2010) but also working on photographing East Sussex in more detail for a larger body of work, which I hope to show sometime in 2011.

Only the 6 What is England? images will appear online, the larger body of work will hopefully be shown in 2011. I just feel it's better for the images to have their first airing in an exhibition space. Which I hope you guys, or at least some of you, will come to.

The project will take more shape as it develops, but it will definitely have heavy focus on open spaces within East Sussex, especially Nature Reserves, National Parks (of which we now have one!), Areas of Outstanding Nature Beauty, Special Sites of Scientific Interest and other areas of recreation. The project will also delve in to what challenges these areas create for the people involved in their upkeep and the enjoyment they bring to others.

I'm not yet sure whether this particular image will make it in to the final edit, but we'll see. However, I have uploaded a big version which is suitable for printing at 12x8 size, if you want, just download it and get yourself a print. Photo Rag would be best, but if not then a matte finish c-type should look quite nice.

Happy New Year to you all. I hope the year ahead brings you a great deal of happiness and creativity.



Click the image for a large version suitable for a 12x8 inch print.