Control Freak
Pretty boring. Can you tell which Derby venue this is?
Having full editorial control is nice. It’s the difference
between art and design. The latter, a client, remit, objective, there’s always
something tugging at the vision. Sometimes the vision and the brief follow the
same trajectory, the confining factors help shape the final product and all the
parties are happy and fulfilled. More often the competing factors dilute the
vision, compromises, the vision diverges and becomes blurry, out of focus. The
result, compromises.
The former however is a vision, an idea, a process, which is
pure, and the world can hang if it’s wrong. Egotistical, if we are honest.
Photographing Boring Places, an idea that took hold last
summer, allows me to be a control freak. The rights and wrongs are all in my
grubby little hands. Typos, mis-aligned images, nonsensical
text,
all mine.
I often have my best ideas (all things are relative, they
may be pretty crappy) whilst asleep, out walking or cooking. I had already decided
on a running order for the next few editions, but why not do one on Roller
Derby? I end up in some pretty boring places. Swindon for example. And even if
the location isn’t boring, I often accidentally take pictures of the floor or
ceiling, often out of focus for good measure.
So why not combine the two. My love of boring places with
going to boring places to shoot Derby.
Wow! Another excellent idea. I can stop using my brain for
the evening. So, it may well be a while away, as I have already planned the
next few editions, but there will be one on Derby (Roller Derby, not the place)
coming at some point.
Next edition of Photographing Boring Places due out around Easter:
Doors and Surveillance.
I think it’ll be, Holidays (this edition is looking particularly
bleak), The Supernatural (for Halloween), then Roller Derby (out around Christmas
2020).
Watch out for it. It will be boring.
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