Actual real photography: Martin Wilson

In today’s Photoshop-drenched world the work of Martin Wilson is doubly, triply outstanding. What he does is take a series of real film photographs, in sequence, with a view to them subsequently forming a final contact sheet arrangement which then, magically, turns into a single image of sorts. According to his blurb, he doesn’t cheat, or slip in replacements if one shot is out of sequence. And if that’s true, it’s an inspiration to anybody picking up a camera. It’s nice these days that you don’t have to make every shot count, but it’s equally nice that sometimes there’s a good reason for doing so.

The sequence pictured above, entitled ‘One Hundred’, also reminds me very much of part of the packaging I once designed for a vinyl record release. Great minds!