Bad Pictures

As photographers we all strive to show the very best of our photography be it on slightly self-glorifying humble-bragging websites or on Instagram where our lives, and perhaps even our art, are meant to appear better than they are in reality.

For each photo put online for all the world to see and hopefully admire there is a vast number of pictures that did not make the cut.

The technical term is the nondescript “outtakes” which I think is too much of a sterile misnomer. Rather, for one reason or other – as determined solely by the photographer – such pictures are quite simply bad.

I have over the years shot many a film roll on which there were only a few ‘good’ photos. The rest were absolute rubbish. I have even had rolls where not one single picture was good enough.

This series, which for obvious reasons is a never-ending project, is about that rubbish, the rejects, those photographs which I, supremely, have decided are bad.

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