Hugh Walker Photography

Cambodia trial verdict

July 27th, 2010

16000 deaths,19 years in jail – fury greets sentence for Pol Pot’s executioner This was the headline in today’s Independent – 27 July. The court ruled that the former maths teacher who had overseen the Tuol Sleng interrrogation centre  should be sentenced to 35 years in jail, reduced to 18 years 10 months after consideration of time [...]

Sets

July 23rd, 2010

The sets here are working groupings based on the model, or variations based on one model. I think I’ll   need to reduce the number and maybe group all the images into one set of  body parts. And of course I must acknowledge the skills of Montserrat Fortuny who originated the images of myself. Working [...]

Galleries

July 16th, 2010

Putting a gallery together has its own logic. It’s what I call  Blakemore sequencing.( I hope John won’t mind this cryptic  reference to his very formative portfolio workshop in Glasgow.) The 3×3 or 3×4 + format often requires the reworking of an image, or reloading of the whole set to get the right balance.

What I enjoy most

July 16th, 2010

is playing with an image. That’s what’s going on in most of set 4. I never know where it’s going , and the end point is a kind of satisfaction when something feels right or a  limit is reached, technical sometimes , but more often aesthetic. But it’s usually provisional.

Work in progress

July 15th, 2010

I’m not sure about presenting work in progress. Should the site just show finished products? I think that will take ages, because I’m feeling my way – lots of trial and error. After three sessions with models, I’ve masses of photographic material, and there was plenty of learning involved getting it, including the workings of [...]