Traffic Lights - Fiery Red, 2025
Photograph
25 x 19 cm
What is a “good” photograph?
They’re supposed to be sharp, with a clear focal point.
This photo was taken on a rainy Sunday afternoon in Bristol, UK. I was sitting on the front seat upstairs on a double decker bus. It was pelting down with rain outside and steamy inside.
As we lurched along, I found myself face to face with traffic lights, really close up and at my eye-level. The lights were distorted by the misty windows, some had fiery coronas around them and raindrops were magnified. It was just like how I see, shapes abstracted, blurred outlines and colours bleeding out of their edges.
Why should we not subvert convention and use photography to reflect our own experience? What we see may be different but just as valid.