This old 35mm camera is probably a Praktica LTL3 and was found in an old garden and given to me as a gift - I loved it and started exploring ways of photographing it and now a huge print hangs on the wall of my office at home.
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I love the way rust and decay transforms an object, first destroying it from a practical point of view and in the process creating something textural and organic
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I found this padlock at my father's house in Ireland and immediately added it to my collection
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This little padlock was on a garden shed but the key had rusted into the lock and it couldn't be used anymore, so I buried it in the garden for a few years and it was transformed
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This padlock was unearthed when we were excavating our garden in Cornwall to lay the foundations for my studio
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The handle had rotted away but what was left was beautiful
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Over the past few years I have continued to search for and collect rusted objects and everyone offers something different
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I found these two in an abandoned tool box that we discovered when we first moved to Cornwall
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I love the fragility of this piece....
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This was another piece unearthered when we were working on the garden of our house in Cornwall - all of these images are designed to be printed in huge sizes and this looks spectacular 6ft high!
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I worked with Kate Bush in 1978 & 1979.
Photographs from 1963 to 1969