This week, quite possibly has been the most peculiar week in a long while. Last Friday I was interviewed for Brighton based newspaper The Argus (read the article there also). The head honcho for the web editorial discovered my work after stumbling upon some tweets of mine during a look at an unrelated story some time ago. I’ve been talking to @BrightonArgusJo for a while via twitter and she asked whether I would be interested in a story about my bin project. Last Friday I got a call from one of the paper’s reporters asking for an interview to talk about the project, with a photographer arranged to come meet me on Sunday – This would have been fine, had I not ended up at the most strange night in Hectors House on Saturday evening/morning with Brighton’s leading fashion photographer DarkDaze, who was also the lecturer for the Creative Photography Course that spawned this monster.
I was quite surprised by this, it seems a strange thing, but of course very happy to talk about how it came about, why I’ve sort of carried on doing it and the things that drive and motivate me.
Things took an even stranger turn yesterday afternoon when I received an email from someone at the BBC, asking how they could get hold of Andy Parker so they can talk to him about the photographs of bins.
Slightly skeptical at the concept of becoming an ‘and finally’, but also giggling to myself I replied and shortly after an interview was being arranged and talks about locations.
More about that tomorrow.
I would like to say thank you to everyone who has sent me tweets, emails, posted comments on The Argus (very amusing) and on the Flickr Brighton Group.
