Keith Hodgson
— photography & design
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Photography

35mm plates

Self-indulgent miscellany, mostly. Indoors: coffee grinders, chillies and garlic, lit and arranged with more care than they’ll ever get again. Outdoors: Provençal shopfronts left to flake and subside with no such fussing at all. Same subject, really — decay — just one version staged under studio lights and the other one decades into the job unsupervised. Nothing here has been restored, nothing here is angling to be, and no apologies are forthcoming.

Still life of a vintage Peugeot coffee grinder, moka pot and scattered coffee beans
01Peugeot Coffee Fest
Faded 'Men's Club' shop signage beside a weathered doorway in Sanary-sur-Mer
02Men's Club, Sanary-sur-Mer
Still life of three red chillies on dark slate
03Chili Passion
Faded Renault garage signage on a weathered Provençal building
04Voitures, Motocultures
Shuttered shopfront of the former Maison Joyeux, Provence
05Maison Joyeux
Café tables and chairs beneath hand-painted signage, Provence
06L'Atelier Café, Chez Catherine
Still life of garlic bulbs and a vintage radio on a 1941 French newspaper, La Dépêche, with wartime headlines
07Axis of Allium
Potted palm against a weathered wall beneath the Café de la Place sign
08Café de la Place
Still life of a garlic bulb split open on dark slate, revealing red-skinned cloves
09Clove Actually

Histamatics

from Instagram, unrepentantly square

Phone photos, filtered, cropped square and posted without much shame. Less considered than the plates above, and no worse for it.

Dark round object in an old wooden trough, iPhone
01Something round, something old
Carved initials, weathered wood, iPhone
02Initials, gone to moss
Bluebells by the water, iPhone
03Bluebells, far shore
Old kettle, Calke Abbey, iPhone
04Kettle, permanently off the boil
Curlew specimen behind glass, Calke Abbey, iPhone
05Curlew, not going anywhere
Kingfisher specimen behind glass, Calke Abbey, iPhone
06Kingfisher, permanently perched
Path through a bluebell wood, iPhone
07Bluebell wood, no shortcuts
Silhouetted tree at sunrise with sheep, Skutterskelfe
08Sheepish Skutterskelfe Sunrise
Electricity pole and wires against a blue sky, iPhone
09Power to the People
Weathered iron lock plate and bolt latch on an old wooden French door
10Ils ne passeront pas
Peeling teal paint on an old door in Antibes, with a red drawing pin and a patch of bare wood
11Full Stop, Antibes
Vintage red grocer's scales with potatoes and carrots, on a wooden crate above a 1939 newspaper headlined 'Germany Not So Sure'
12Weighed in the Balance