For some time now I’ve been looking at material I shot in my early career in photography, and I can tell you there’s rather a lot to look at, both film negatives & transparencies. To simplify the process I chose to work with small bodies of work with a view to scanning them if they were of interest, a rather slow process at present. In the longer term I have to take decisions as to how I show them. Maybe as a book, online or even exhibited. One of the bodies of work I’ve been working with dates back to 1979/80 and is of a “Pram Race” that the local publicans in Kemp Town, Brighton used to organise. Thinking that it might be fun to exhibit these as part of the Brighton Photo Fringe taking place in October this year, I have been trying to fill in the gaps in my memory of the event (and no it’s not dementia) and have found that there are very few people around nowadays with any knowledge of the event. Most of the participating publicans are no longer around and there are even less of the people who raced. Such is the transient nature of what was once a close and rather tight knit community. Not that it isn’t nowadays, but the demographic has definately changed.
I originally toyed with printing the images onto newsprint and pasting them up at strategic places around the original circuit or maybe printing QR codes, that people can access via their smartphones or tablets to view the images, as they walk the circuit.
In the meantime you can see some of the scanned work here