Hotel Room
My day is devoted to working as a cinematographer shooting documentaries for others and at the end of the day, I return to my hotel room. It’s not just a room, it’s my sanctuary, my stage and a place where I get to be self-expressive.
For the last thirty years I have been spending around eight to ten months per year in a hotel rooms, working away at the following five photographic projects, a 22 minute film and an audio soundscape.
These theatrical still lives and staged self-portraits have a confessional quality and reveal my internal world.
Five photographic projects
Still Life
Killing Time – A 22 minute short film
Hotel Room - 05:13 minute soundscape made up from recorded atmospherics, abstract sounds and music all made and recorded in the hotel room
The images are photographed using various 120 medium format film cameras (Mamiya RZ, Mamiya 7 II, Makina Plaubel 67 and Pentax 67 II). The 22 minute film was photographed using a Red Gemini with Angenieux lenses and framed in a 4:3 aspect ratio. The audio equipment used was a Sony D100 and a Zoom H4 Hand held stereo field recorder.