Dropped Pin

Something old, something new, something borrowed and a hint of blue. So what has any of this got to do with a dropped pin? Nothing actually.

Some time back a friend and I set ourselves a little project. Drop a pin somewhere on the map, go there and be creative with a camera while taking inspiration from a photographic master of the past.

Our first attempts at a random dropped pin led to impossible places, like the roofs of factories or inaccessible private property. My final attempt, a little more forgiving, consisted of dropping a random sized circle on the map and then allowing the choice of anywhere on that circle.

My random circle luckily intersected with a cool and quirky cafe in Cork called Lab82 where I found a porcelain skull in the window. My muse for the project was the 20th century visual artist Man Ray, who with his partner Lee Miller accidentally developed the photographic technique of solarization. Finally I had my subject, my muse and my vision.

Rather than using any photo editing tool I came up with my own interpretation of the style. From there I’ll let you decide what’s old, what’s new, what I’ve borrowed and if there really is any blue.


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