Since returning from the Lake District I have had a wee photographic project brewing, which has involved me spoaching about for an old, rickety wooden chair.
I first saw the use of a chair in Rob Ward's The Chair project, whereby he has photographed different members of the local community in his studio using nothing but a chair. The resulting images are great, and tell a lot about the people from their "take" on the chair. You can see these images at
What I am interested to do is to take a different slant on the chair theme, putting it in a public space and take some shots. Whether these images are candid or staged, taken as close-ups or from further away, on the beach or in the hills somewhere it will be interesting to see what happens. In the back of my mind I can see a farmer and his Collie sitting on the chair in the Alwin valley, skaters in the market place in Blyth, and candid family shots on the beach. A kind of story-telling project ...
Throwing in a measure of mystery and intrigue, and the possibility of some perplexed onlookers wondering why there is a chair on the concrete pier at Blyth beach or at the top of a grassy knoll in the Cheviots kinda gets me excited ....
Maybe I have finally tipped over the edge ....
