Andrew Sleigh

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  • The details

    I was thinking about details as I walked the dog this morning, and reflecting on my zine project, especially the finishing of that project. It’s easy to get to 90% in a project. The last 10% is the hardest, and it’s all about details. The minor details of sequencing and layout; testing out different types […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    October 12, 2022
    Blog, Photography
  • Finishing

    I enjoy finishing things, which perhaps makes me better suited to art practice than many (leaving aside questions of talent, skill or ideas). But it never ceases to amaze me just how long finishing takes, or how boring it is. I’m driven by the desire to just get rid of the bloody thing, and it’s […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    October 9, 2022
    Photography, Projects, Stream Zine
  • Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People/Places

    Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People/Places

    There are two kinds of books about photography. Serious books about artists (monographs, retrospectives, histories or collections of a genre) and how-to guides (how to use your DSLR, how to take black and white photography, how to take stunning portraits, etc.). The first kind assume you’re a consumer of art. They introduce you to new […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    September 21, 2022
    Books, Photography
  • A good surface is full of clues

    A good surface is full of clues

    I read Alec Soth’s Sleeping by the Mississippi this summer (buy from Amazon). I’m exploring photobooks and this is one that comes up again and again as a must-read. I was predisposed to Soth’s work because i know him first as a blogger and YouTuber, which I imagine he might find amusing. It’s a mix […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    September 20, 2022
    Books, Photography
  • Towards a mission

    I spend far to long trying to figure out why I do what I do – or how to optimise what I do to create biggest impact. Here’s a brief interlude in that spirit – why am I picking up blogging again? OK, that’s all very fragmentary; let’s leave it to sit for a while.

    Andrew Sleigh

    September 19, 2022
    Blog
  • Flattening the Picture

    Flattening the Picture

    I’ve been taking photos of woodland damage caused by larch felling and subsequent storms. This landscape would often be captured with a romantic view. In fact, the place I’m photographing is cultivated as a picturesque landscape. I didn’t want to make images of beautiful decay, so I thought I’d try something more confrontational.  I thought […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    September 18, 2022
    Photography
  • Process Saves Us From The Poverty Of Our Intentions

    This is a quote, attributed to sculptor sculptor Elizabeth King, that Seth Godin uses to introduce his book The Practice: Shipping Creative Work. I read this two ways. Firstly, that process is what distinguishes pros from amateurs – ‘doing the work’. But also that sometimes our intentions feel poor. We don’t quite know what we […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    September 18, 2022
    Photography
  • Photography is dead. Long live photography

    Photography is dead. Long live photography

    It might just be a symptom of accelerating culture, but it seems the lifespan of technologies shrinks ever more. Painting lasted a few thousand years before being ‘obsoleted’ by photography. Photography has only just made it into the Museum of Modern Art, and been declared dead. The main threats being: I feel like photography has […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    September 6, 2022
    Photography
  • Rebus

    Rebus

    From Wikipedia: A rebus (/ˈriːbəs/) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word “been” might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter “n”. It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    August 30, 2022
    Photography
  • Objects that appear so simple, coherent, and inevitable

    I’m taking photos of stuff I find left in public space. So far it’s mostly a lot of flytipping, but maybe it will turn into something more interesting. This is an IKEA tabletop (Linnmon, £15). I passed by it about a week ago, and for some reason didn’t take a photo. I wish I had. […]

    Andrew Sleigh

    August 30, 2022
    Photography
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