John Blakemore 

Here is my analysis on the artist and photographer John

Blakemore.
John Blakemore

•John Blakemore is a photographer

specializing in the Silver Print
technique.
•Saying "The silver print has
remained my chosen and primary
means of expression. The
exploration of its subtlety and
tonal richness a constant source of
pleasure and fascination". Most
of Blakemore's photos are of
natural environments, full of
texture and atmosphere. 
Fictions series 
•The collage I am analyzing is part of his Fictions series.
"All photographs are to an extent fictions, the world of
the image changed from the ‘reality’ observed through
the activity of picture making, elements willfully edited,
new relationships suggested by the manipulations of
frame and viewpoint." He said about his fictions prints.
Blakemore, wants to show how all images are
abstractions of reality, a manufactured world, that is
created though the techniques of photography. For this
series Blakemore used double exposure to create the
images one picture of a still life and another of soil or
the tree bark as a background 
• The series was all about decaying and death as well
as how long-lost objects from the ground can evoke 
feelings of nostalgia and lost memories. 

• The series started when Blakemore, was clearing out

his garden and he came across decaying flower
stems which begin his obsession of collecting old
artifacts including rusted coins, pieces of broken
pottery or a skull of a favourite cat accidently
exhumed. All these objects soon made it into one of
his Fictions still lifes. 
The Garden - Fragments of a History 2. By John Blakemore  This image has a strange, dark
atmosphere.
To me it has the sense of forgotten
memories, something lost in the past.
The overall picture is full of a story, but
you are not completely sure of what it
might be. Who owned the glass bottle?
What was it used for? The answer to 
these questions feel as though they are
lost in the past. 
Each item is precisely placed with the
two flowers placed carefully in the bottle
neck emphasizing an unknown back
story. 
The skull gives it a dark fairytale feeling
while also giving the overall image an
atmospheric sense of death and
decaying. 
The monochrome silvery colours adds to
the dreamlike feel.
The piece is full of texture from the
cracks in the skull to the veins of leaves
making it seem like its own micro
landscape overflowing with details.