Coming to the end now of this blog - After - life - in order to write what I needed for my book and also get all the information out, I collected my thoughts there as I put together the images.
It was interesting to go back over some of the info and re-read the reports.
There was also a documentary on a night or so ago about John Darwin - Canoe Man - which was although not completist by any stretch, still an interesting bit of TV.
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Showing posts with label fakedsuicidespots after-life. Show all posts
Friday, 2 April 2010
Saturday, 4 April 2009
After-life 2 - Severn Bridge
And then came Severn Bridge.
Not chronologically - first was Danes Dyke and then Immingham - but I'll write more about the series later.I'll just post as I go through.
Severn Bridge is famous enough as a feat of engineering, and in the UK at least it's famous as well as a suicide spot similar in notoriety to Beachy Head.
Richey Edwards' car was left nearby in the motorway services along with the many number of others who choose it as their place to go. The bridge imposes itself across the water and over the skyline and although I didn't go here for photos of just a bridge, it's hard not to gawp and click.
More info if wanted.
Not chronologically - first was Danes Dyke and then Immingham - but I'll write more about the series later.I'll just post as I go through.
Severn Bridge is famous enough as a feat of engineering, and in the UK at least it's famous as well as a suicide spot similar in notoriety to Beachy Head.
Richey Edwards' car was left nearby in the motorway services along with the many number of others who choose it as their place to go. The bridge imposes itself across the water and over the skyline and although I didn't go here for photos of just a bridge, it's hard not to gawp and click.
More info if wanted.
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
After-life
I'm collating all the images of the pseudo-suicide spots I shot now for prints and to put up on my website. I've got a piece to write to accompany it and also to lay out in order for a short run book.
With all the places I visited, I could see in each why it was picked - some obvious because of background connections or popular history - but inherent in all was the despair of both selection and practice.
None were random places of moment or at least they didn't feel that way and as much as many suicides can travel far to fulfil self-believed necessity, these could well have been decided upon months, if not years or decades, before.
I've called the series After-life for the reason that the act of faking suicide is not to full-stop life totally - it is to put a painful parenthesis around the former and then place everything in the plan of what comes next.
Below are the first I've been working on and are from Beachy Head, East Sussex.
Info for the interested.
With all the places I visited, I could see in each why it was picked - some obvious because of background connections or popular history - but inherent in all was the despair of both selection and practice.
None were random places of moment or at least they didn't feel that way and as much as many suicides can travel far to fulfil self-believed necessity, these could well have been decided upon months, if not years or decades, before.
I've called the series After-life for the reason that the act of faking suicide is not to full-stop life totally - it is to put a painful parenthesis around the former and then place everything in the plan of what comes next.
Below are the first I've been working on and are from Beachy Head, East Sussex.
Info for the interested.
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