Renewal

These are three pictures I've submitted for the Seachange Arts open exhibition on the theme of renewal. The exhibition will be taking place from 12 to 14 April in the refurbished Great Yarmouth Library gallery.
1 Urban renewal in Lisbon's Alfama district

2 Street art in central Lisbon

3 Refurbished postbox, Great Yarmouth

My take on this submission has been a pretty straightforward one of urban renewal, taking two images from my trip to Lisbon two years ago and one very recent one from Great Yarmouth. I've always been interested in photographing street scenes, especially looking for the conjunction of stret art and posters with human interest. The second of these amused me because it shows street art of a workman painting over....street art. The final one is a little difrerent but I quite liked the strong image of the refurbished postbox at the St George's Chapel revevelopment site.

The bunns (2003-2010)

Dungeness

Time spent at Dungeness is never wasted. A week ago I braved the bitterly cold winds to spend an hour walking around parts of the village around the shingle bank and in sight of the power station, the two lighthouses, and the myriad of cottages, shacks, huts, containers, boats and all sorts of beachside oddities and detritus. This is an important ecological site, one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world, It also has the southerly terminus of the narrow gauge Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway. A useful site on Dungeness with a very good selection of photographs is www.urban75.org/photos/kent/dungeness.html

I took a few shots of the iconic cottage where the artist Derek Jarman used to live. It's a bleak but fascinating part of the Kent coast, that would repay a longer visit. If only it had been warmer.

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