- Portfolio / Photographer Keith Brighouse
- 2024-04-15T16:04:47+02:00
- 2024-04-15T16:04:47+02:00
These three photos were made after some serious work with Laura messing around the attic steps.
These photos are of my daughter modelling for me, a few years back now. At the time she said, you might call it modelling, I call it child abuse! I was playing around with more kitschy ideas at the time and we went to the beach at Hoek van Holland in atrocious weather, not entirely obvious on the photographs. The third photo on the dunes is clearly influenced by Japanese photography which we are both interested in.
I only dabble in landscape photography occasionally but sometimes I get the urge. I woke up early one morning last spring to find it was a misty morning so I grabbed my camera and cycled around the Dokummer Ee canal. There are no spectacular landscapes in the Netherlands so you really have to focus on conditions such as the sky or the weather but there is a beauty but you have to slow down and appreciate it.
These shots were made for a photo/poetry zine I am putting together. I have been dealing with the artistic issues of having the two art forms working together for quite some time. On this occasion I have been influenced by emblemata books where images and text deal with the same theme in parallel. The images don't illustrate the text nor do the text describe the images, each independently are of the same subject. When I met Becca, she quickly convinced me she was the right model for this project.
I wanted to arrest you, take you to bed
for questioning, frisk you, be liberal
about your person, put my head in yours
look around the attic room of your imagination
what memories you had stored, what secrets
to run my fingers across your lips, feel
the shape of words formed on your tongue
which divulgence would skin my heart
leave it raw, my syrup blood, streamed in tears
red upon your lips, this is my confession
I have had a strkng account previously but life got in the way. My background is in art and I started taking photography seriously about ten years ago, when I wanted a photo for a poetry book cover and decided to make the photo myself. Since then I have focused on art and model photography but also dabble in landscape and documentary photography.
I do enjoy the surreal, more absurd side of life. I often have an inability to take life too serious, in a serious sort of way, if that makes sense. It keeps my frustration with the world in proportion and in check.
I’ve started to shoot mainly in colour for intellectual reasons rather than artistic teasons because the world is in colour but it is still very difficult to escape black and white. I am often a b&w recidivist.