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Associate of the Royal Photographic Society

15 images Created 11 Jan 2011

These 15 images form my Associateship panel for the Royal Photographic Society. For blog post see http://www.vivecakohphotography.co.uk/2011/06/15/my-arps-panel-left-behind/

These fifteen photographs are also available for purchase in my Blurb published book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2492886?ce=blurb_ew&utm_source=widget

Statement of Intent : "Left Behind"

Abandoned buildings and the objects within them are the most fascinating of photographic subjects, one that will always engage my attention and utmost respect as a photographer. When the people leave a building for the last time, what remains of their possessions is poignant and at the same time heart-breaking. Mundane everyday items still imprinted with the memory of their old owners - Bond Street shoes for a tiny feminine foot, bottles of pills well past their "use by" date, a typewriter on which someone may have written their magnum opus, even the casualties of abandonment such as the butterfly that flew in unawares to become forever trapped in thick spider-webs - and always, everywhere, so many varieties of chairs. These treasures left behind deserve to be photographed as still life portraits, and turned into modern works of art that are altogether more sublime, because for me, there really is beauty in decay.

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  • Hallway at Potters Manor
    The Departed
  • Chair and ironing board in front of shelf with hangers
    Ironing Services
  • Still Life
  • Piano in abandoned house
    Play It Again Sam
  • Still life of two chairs next to an arch with an umbrella.
    Still Life In 2D
  • Empty glycerin bottle on book
    Evolution
  • Small statue with white feathers Textured photograph using vintage postcard
    Angelicus
  • A jacket hanging on a stand in a bathroom at the abandoned Potters Manor.
    High Glow
  • Chair and chaise longue in an abandoned bedroom
    Truth Will Out
  • Shoes and stocking on a chair
    Shoes and Stockings
  • Old typewriter in abandoned building. How I did it: http://www.vivecakohphotography.co.uk/2010/07/02/2103/
    Communication
  • Medicine bottles and bathroom products on the windowsill at Potters Manor House.
    Kill Or Cure
  • Butterfly on a decaying windowsill
    Banish the Blue Sky
  • Old television in an abandoned house
    What's On Today Then?
  • Two photographs blended to make one image
    Words Can Never Hurt Me
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