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Jul 16, 2010
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Martin Wilson’s Contact Sheets
These are quite amazing — Wilson shoots each photo on film with the contact sheet in mind, the end result is a kind of comic “strip”, or image made up of the smaller images.

My pictures are painstakingly created frame by frame on 35mm film. I get the whole film developed, scan it, then piece the final image together on the computer, making a large contact sheet. It’s only when the completed film strips are laid out side by side in the contact sheets that the final image appear.
Each work usually takes months to complete, as each frame is obsessively taken in sequence. No pasting together after the event, no cheating in Photoshop!
If I make a mistake or take a frame out of place I start the film again from the beginning.
The works are all records of real journeys, the visual remnants of hours walking or cycling round town, bringing to life the unheard voices of the city.

I especially like the ones with words…

Martin Wilson’s Contact Sheets

These are quite amazing — Wilson shoots each photo on film with the contact sheet in mind, the end result is a kind of comic “strip”, or image made up of the smaller images.

My pictures are painstakingly created frame by frame on 35mm film. I get the whole film developed, scan it, then piece the final image together on the computer, making a large contact sheet. It’s only when the completed film strips are laid out side by side in the contact sheets that the final image appear.

Each work usually takes months to complete, as each frame is obsessively taken in sequence. No pasting together after the event, no cheating in Photoshop!

If I make a mistake or take a frame out of place I start the film again from the beginning.

The works are all records of real journeys, the visual remnants of hours walking or cycling round town, bringing to life the unheard voices of the city.

I especially like the ones with words

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    I love Wilson’s work. I stumbled across Oranges & Lemons and Once Round the Sun at an exhibition once.
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    THESE ARE SO FREAKING COOL!
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    This is fantastic,
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