What do the photographic self-portraits that wake in the networks as avatars do while we surf or sleep? Photographic splinters of views of our selfs represent our identity in a place that we ourselves cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its own representation. Photography can act...
a house is a mountain streets make up valleys carved by grid-locked stream deep into the distance chimney peaks - alpine flowers littered scrunched rolling papers in full bloom tobacco moss covers every surface - echoes of calamity in the valley on my toes scramble through a fog of skunk knockoff cologne - I love alpine air by Claudia Platzer...
The Himalayan Balsam was introduced to Kew Gardens by Dr Royle from Kashmir in 1839. It is easy to grow and establish in the UK. The flowers are pretty but it does have a pungent odour which is probably one of the reasons it was...
Mushrooms for the Soul by Catherine Goulden My fascination with fungi first began at the very beginning of 2020. I was having the first walk of the year in Ambleside on New Year’s day. There I noticed rubbery protrusions, resembling human ears, clinging to the remnants...
Getting To Know You The first time I saw you I knew I had to have you, Glistening in the window calling me, Seducing me and convincing me to take care of you. As we share a moment, to which no one can relate I look for somewhere suitable where...
Aubergine It does not have special smell. It has light purple flowers. The leaves and flowers are not edible. If the plant had a voice, it may say: Please take good care of me, and I will return you with good looking flowers and nice fruits. It’s given name is...
Let’s begin with death. We need death in the garden. We find this in a simple process of decomposing organic material. When we allow our apple cores, coffee granules, carrot peelings, eggshells, grass and plant clippings, dry leaves, shredded newspaper, and chopped wood, to become compost, we...
My sprouting journey began when I came across an episode on the Rich Roll podcast called ‘surviving Juicero & Thriving on Sprouts’ which the protagonist Dough Evans talked about all the health benefits of eating and growing your own sprouts. I found that over the counter...
The propagation of strawberry is relying on the runners, but not the fruit. The original plant will stretch its runners horizontally, and seeking any space on the surface for them to root. Once they get into position, then they are ready to grow. Runners do not...
The propagation of strawberry is relying on the runners, but not the fruit. The original plant will stretch its runners horizontally, and seeking any space on the surface for them to root. Once they get into position, then they are ready to grow. Runners do not...
While seeing to my plants I discovered a pot coated in a white deposit known as efflorescence, an accumulation of salts and minerals that have been absorbed through the porous walls of the terracotta pot and remain after the water evaporates. The concept of growth from...
Take a deep, slow, long breath Unknowing Walk strictly left Pray each night Don’t end in hell Yoga is the devil Astrology is the dark Tarot evil spirit Queerness leaves a mark One day, you too like me One day, you too, like me You too, will be, like me One day, you too, like me Change -...
For children growing up in Everton, Liverpool in the 1960's, conditions were poor. Parents struggled financially in a grey world. Row upon row of dark, damp terraces houses stretched from the hill to the docks. Wildlife was scarce, except for pigeons, starlings and stray dogs. However,...
Rhubard is common in cooking or baking. It is easy to recognise with its iconic coloured stem, normally in red, pink, green and white. And its leaves grow large, like umbrellas covering stems and the soik underneath. Besides that, those leaves act like solar panels,...
On a recent trip back home, I found some old albums whilst I was visiting my grandma. Since she is now living with dementia, revisiting the past through her photographs is a comfort to her, and seems to bring back a sense of certainty and...
When I went into the garden after your introductory talk I was immediately struck by a bush I saw opposite the church door. I felt I must take photographs of it. I reconised it from seeing one in my parents' garden in West Kirby and in...
When we moved into our house one year ago I knew I wanted to grow the sad grey back yard...
While seeing to my plants I discovered a pot coated in a white deposit known as efflorescence, an accumulation of salts and minerals that have been absorbed through the porous walls of the terracotta pot and remain after the water evaporates. The concept of growth from...
The first time I saw you I knew I had to have you, Glistening in the window calling me, Seducing me and convincing me to take care of you. As we share a moment, to which no one can relate I look for somewhere suitable where you can locate. But...
Chandni chowk also knows Moon Square, is one of the oldest place in Delhi. Its congested rods, crowded market, people , food, daily wager, small shops is place to witness with all sort of drama going on everywhere 360 degrees. In world with so fast...
Axon is a mature student studying Fine Art at DMU, and as part of her developing practice has been examining how the small things that we do, such as recycling, can impact on the small things, such as insects. During work with Naturespot on their...
I'm hoping to take more photos here. I like the way when new people come across it, they feel like they’ve chanced on a magical space. It is a space where people feel at ease and it would be great to see more open spaces...
A seagull trail is a trail in a city where you follow the seagulls and where they're going- perhaps they'll lead you somewhere that you've never been before. The best times are in the afternoon when it's primarily bright, and that's the prime time that...
'Losing and Remembering' is a project that uses my recently deceased grandfather's photographic archive to show the mental effects of dementia. My grandfather was diagnosed with dementia three years before he died from the disease. During those three years, his memory rapidly declined, and his...
The vision for this collection is to share a message of hope and caring for the nature that surrounds us. I feel in an ever changing world, nature is a valuable source for helping people through challenging times. I find from talking to different people,...
In a nutshell I’d say my Open Eye Story is about not being afraid to try new things or step outside of your creative comfort zone to highlight something that concerns or interests you. The final work for my BA in Photography Questionable Inedible looked at...
I feel like everyone shares the need and urge to explore; we all feel it differently. I feel the need to explore a lot more digitally then I do in the real world, and that is what I am showcasing in these photographs. They’re not...
My brother found out by a complete accident because my original volunteer space got really toxic, so I found out about this and then I just never stopped because I love gardening originally but I never had a place to do it or a care...
I’ve been coming here for one and half years. My friends and I all came together. I had no experience before. I enjoy being here because I have made friends and come with my friends. I feel that the things I am learning here are...
I went to Greenham Common and that is nature in me. I feel good. I do reiki and have a load of other hobbies. I’m an activist. I’m political and go to loads of demonstrations. I’ve always been involved with nature and community spaces. I...
They used to have lunch and one of the ladies said ‘do you want to come in?’ I said ‘Yes, I’ll come in, what are you doing?’ and ever since I’ve been coming. And I like gardening; I’ve got a garden of my own but...
It's something I've always been passionate about doing: The community and trying to teach people the value of growing your own, people who are in isolation. There's a lot of reasons why. Knowing where your food has come from, growing it from seed, looking after...
Originally, it was my mum and dad who got me started. We always had a garden. My mums from a farming background in Wales and my dad likes gardening too. So my memories of being a little girl were mainly in the garden watching my...
I went to Zimbabwe for 6 years doing EOS. Teaching secondary maths, science and a little bit of English, and lived in a home which had no electricity or running water. I met my wife about 5 years in. I finished and went home and...
I think I’ve been here maybe since May of 2021, just last year. Not yet one year. My sister was walking through Everton Park one day, I think maybe John invited her to take a look in the community garden. My sister brought me here...
I used to go to John Archer Hall first, I retired from work so I just wanted something to fill in a few days. I did have a part-time job. I just went there. By the side of John Archer Hall there's a garden there,...
I suppose it's just the fact that its people coming together and trying to work on more than just growing veg, but also making community and meeting new people and providing an opportunity for everyone. It also provides me with an opportunity to do my...
I love gardening. I’m a follower not a leader. Don't ask me any gardening questions because I wouldn’t be able to answer. I just say to Hil, “what do you want me to do?” And away I go. I’m 70. I’m my husband's carer. I’ve...
Places like this are lifelines because of the dangers like agricultural collapse through climate change and economic circumstances. We’re learning about how to grow things and some people will be forced to dig up their lawns at home and we can help them. If we...
I became unemployed and I had a child that was grieving and I took her out of school and we looked for things to do and we found North Park. We just jumped into that and my kid enjoyed all the learning parts of it....
I started coming to Sudley 4 years ago because I had a stroke and then obviously I couldn't do any work or anything. And then I found this through the brain charity and it's been a godsend. Otherwise, I’d just be in the house cooped...
I’ve been a gardener since I came to Liverpool in 2016. I volunteer and I like the job because its like exercise, it makes you active and it's also good to grow something and somebody benefits from it. You’re not the only people but others...
We’re using a derelict space that has been restored, which is important, and it's a peaceful place to come to escape. In the summer it's like a country allotment to me, not like a country garden but very much although in the middle of the...
I’m tired. I love the outdoors and I love experimenting with plants. I enjoy crafts and do a lot of walking with the dog. I do like a bit of photography and I’ve started wine making. Not yet with the fruits from here. I make...
Cities and towns need more stuff like this. Instead of just looking at buildings and roads and airports, community gardens are great because you can just come, chill, relax, do stuff that you enjoy. It gets you out of the house. It's better than sitting...
It's a social justice issue about people's access to good food. Just because we’re in Bootle and not somewhere leafy, it isn't that people in Bootle just deserve less because the area is not as…its an equalities issue. Climate change is massive, and it wasn't...
I was doing nothing anyway, I just moved in further down the road. I live on the same road as Squash. So I had just moved in and there was nothing to do. I did charity shops. A leaflet came through the door advertising for...
MUG TREE, FAZAKERLEY Despite it looking as though it was made from lack of cupboard space, it is a tree belonging to a man I once knew briefly who took up the hobby - as well as other oddball house decorations - due to loneliness after...
In December my family and I travelled to Sweden for my first international photography exhibition. I was proud to have images in ‘Ljus på fotograferna’, an exhibition about light and creative practitioners so I travelled from Derbyshire with my wife Claire, along with our two...
The photos snapped have been taken via my daily journeys and represent the way I view the world. Enigmatic. Charismatic. Passionate. Lover of life and all truth that binds us together. Arun Kapur is a mental health advocate that uses the medium of the arts to...
A reflection on the enduring human ability to process change. How do we resolve the loss of a future we thought would always be there? What do we do when the threads that tied us to our history and our future are broken? Throughout our lives relationships...
Working nights, going from job to job, the night becomes your own. Once midnight has come and gone the twilight zone kicks in, takes over. Everything becomes slower, the air less dense, cleaner even. You and the darkness become one, entwined in a world the...
Though I've been living in Liverpool for 13 years I've never called the city home. Born and raised in rural Northern Ireland, the March 2020 lockdown saw me isolating alone, and as weeks of solitude turned to months I began to question where I truly...
Before lockdown my statement was very simple and direct. “To spend time in beautiful places with beautiful people with a camera capturing the sights that intrigued me.” When access to the outside world became difficult due to lockdown I had to change my approach to capturing...
I found myself struggling with difficult emotions during the months of lockdown and I turned to photography to help me process my thoughts and feelings. My prominent feeling was sadness – I felt grief for those directly affected by illness and loss, with anxiety and sorrow...
Since I joined Clickmoor Camera Group 18 months ago, I have learned just how Diverse and enjoyable photography can be . Whether it is a natural, spontaneous or staged Event . While involved in some projects with the group, I started using natural and imitation lighting...
Image 1 I think about science fiction a lot. Too much, truth be known. Incessantly. Even – especially - whilst doing other tasks. Household chores and stuff. Is that a form of mental divergence, like the tuxedo-clad fellow in Twelve Monkeys (1995) describes to James Cole...
Island identities were once founded on the historical and cultural sense of belonging defined by their physical borders. The trans-global communication systems which shape our contemporary lives, produce a remoteness from experience of place and time which impacts on our physical relationship with the landscape....
Imagining Disaster: The Future is Unwritten (Swipe through for images) For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved science fiction – whether on TV, the big screen or in book form. I loved shows like The Tripods and Chocky, adapted respectively from books by Johns Christopher...
This series aims to unravel what we perceive to be care and neglect within our shared spaces. When we care for our gardens and parks, we can do so in a way that is entirely reductive, through the cutting of the grass, plucking of the...
The World Stopped Turning And You Turned A Blind Eye ‘The World Stopped Turning And You Turned A Blind Eye’ is a collection of photographs made during the period of national and local lockdowns through 2020 and into early 2021. Its function was primarily as an...
Commotion Time In 1549, Robert Kett of Wymnodham, Norfolk enclosed some common land to graze his sheep. When the locals objected and tore down his fences, he relented and took up their cause, leading them in what became one of the great peasant revolts of British...
At times over the past 18 months, I have wanted to run away from it all - from the danger of COVID-19, and the stress of people’s worries about its origin, impact and consequences. I was lucky enough to move to a new home during...
At times over the past 18 months, I have wanted to run away from it all - from the danger of COVID-19, and the stress of people’s worries about its’ origin, impact and consequences. I was lucky enough to move to a new home during...
These photographs were taken at a workshop for women with irregular migrant status, giving them the opportunity to connect with self, each other and the natural world. By Jackson Mount...
Shot on Portra 400 film, a frosty morning on a pocket of greenery in Liverpool....
This series looks at the cross over between public/private spaces; focussing on a park (Bute Park, Cardiff). How do people act in these semi-private but also public places? My images are looking at human behaviour within these spaces, searching for moments that sum up their...
Further stories from the One Day at a Time Boys as part of the exhibition One Day at a Time on the outside of Open Eye Gallery until 19 September 2021. Swipe on mobile or arrow keys on laptop to navigate. Wayne....
