Six years ago (or thereabouts) I decided to start a project structured in the following way:
- photograph two rolls of film (one colour, one black & white) every month
- continue this for five years
- don’t look at any of the photos until after the end of the five years

I started this project on 1 January 2019, and on 31 December 2023 I took the last photo.

The reasons behind structuring the project in this way are inextricably linked to the ideas I wanted to explore when I started. This is something I will write further about at another time, but in essence is centred around what is visible and what is not, what we share and what we don’t. What impact this change of state from private to seen has on the individual, what impact does it have if that is reversed.

At times the concept of a “month” ebbed and flowed, and at times the constant photographs became a chore - but this was all part of the process, part of the experiment. The project was as much about observing how it felt as it was about the actual creation.

At the present moment I am thinking about how I now want to go about looking at the photos. It seems a loss to simply rush through looking for the “best photos”. The looking, similar to the creating, needs to involve a level of internal observation. I am thinking I would like that process to be non-linear, perhaps a ritual of sorts.

There is no rush, I have time.