Peter Metelerkamp

Insitutional space.

British spaces: pleasures of the urban space changing with the moods of light. Two snaps made in downtown Newport, Wales, while waiting for a conference on documentary portraiture to begin.

A street near where I live.

Summer Holiday. The following images capture the rather peculiar transposed domesticity of a holiday in a chalet in Cornwall.

The sense of domestication extends to the public spaces of England as well, with their modest comforts for modest lives.

An Englishman’s home…..

Youth. Taken at a ploughing day on a farm on the Isle of Wight - Easter Monday bank holiday 2007. These kids were sitting in the back of a restored SWB military landrover. I was virtually inside, with a 21mm lens.

Military dreamer. The same sunny spring morning among English fields. A restorer of military memorabilia.

A snapshot, on a grey morning in December 2006. One of the pleasures of the camera is the ability to grab conjunctures from the visible world without thinking about them. Kertesz taught us that beauty is an accident, and to permit  amusement of the eye.  This is an image made while walking to work, deliberately responding to what “catches the eye” and snapping without succumbing to the grey cloud of care.

Shuffling among the out-takes I occasionally come across pictures that interact: these are from separate trips to the USA.

The first is in 2000, that era of innocence before 9/11. In the Metropolitan museum, my wife Sara and daughter Ruth.

The second is in the same museum, snapped on a day off on a trip in 2005 to visit US film schools.

Does time move forwards only; or is that a matter of point of view?

Students learning the basic procedures of sync sound shooting on film.

Here is another image of a student camera crew on set at the University of Bristol. From left to right: Brazilian, Japanese, Lebanese, and British.

I will be using this site to put up odd images I find in my files . Here is Thomas Choi, the Korean TV drama director, learning some of the basics of camera and lighting.