The history of Burnouts themselves originates from Drag Racing.  Drag racing slicks perform better at higher temperatures, thus making a burnout the quickest way to raise tyre temperature prior to a race.  It also cleans the tyre and lays down a layer of rubber by the starting line for better traction.  Some drag racetracks use a “wet box”. – A specially reserved wet surface area where water is poured to reduce the friction and initiate the burnout. The “wet box” was once called a “bleach box” when bleach was used instead of water.  To View More >>

Today’s camera market is vast and extensive.  They range from point and shoot to phone and of course entry level and professional. Everyone these days can take photos and virtually all have a camera in their pocket thanks to phone technology.  Yet did you realise they all have one thing in common?  They cannot tell you where to stand and when to click the button.  These two extremely important steps to producing a photograph is still left for us humans to decide. Therefore, the artistic concept of when you look at a photographers work you are also looking into the photographer’s To View More >>

A lot of things are happening in my personal life right now,  each one impacting the next.  Never would I have thought of it happening like it has.  As a result I have turned and channelled my thoughts and processes into my art.  Crossing back and forth between drawing with a fine art pen and then exploring the world of abstract art in Painting, Graffiti, listening to podcasts of short stories, and right back to photography looking and creating natural abstracts.     Going for a wander, with camera in hand, during our current National Lockdown in my local community, To View More >>

(July 17 1898 – December, 1991)   Berenice Abbott was an American photographer who learned photography in the 1920s in Paris as a studio assistant to fellow American Man Ray. She soon opened her own portrait studio where she became known for her photographic works of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures including James Joyce and Eugene Atget. With a spirit of adventure, in love with freedom and perfectly in tune with her times she produced a body of work influenced by Eugene Atget and Man Ray.  However she was best known for her series ‘Changing New York’ (1936-1938) To View More >>

Who is behind this? One Voice Many Lives is the heartfelt photographic project of photographer, Jo Marshall herself. Joanne and her 13 year old daughter are working together to make this happen.  Why? After working many years alongside youth and listening to them as well as studying youth and identity while gaining her BA in Media Arts.  Joanne has always been able to connect with them in a way that they appreciate.   She has seen them struggle within themselves to be seen and heard and find their place in the adult world.  Now her daughter is facing a different To View More >>