Photographic – Jon Eland

H.M. Coroners Post

To the side of the ‘city park’ – Bradford’s redemption – is the pre-existing courts complex and police station. The latter emptied to make way for redevelopment and improve the lots of the copper, the latter showing it’s age. This zine looks at the interaction between the buildings, the controlled natural elements and some of…… Continue reading H.M. Coroners Post

Final Resting Place

The finality of death – looking at ageing and fragility from a different angle. Shadows cast on memorial stones in a local graveyard balanced with images of a former home for the elderly – captured after it’s closure and a significant fire. Itself teetering on permanent demise. Shared as pairs the images reflect on the…… Continue reading Final Resting Place

‘Reconstructed’ project

This image examines how the museum removes things from context to create a subjective view of history, using the battle reconstruction (or re-enactment) as inspiration. Incorporating re-enactment photographs taken by the Shire oak photography collective alongside a gallery attendant who is a member of the collective, the work explores the nature of the photographic and performative reconstruction in relation to the historical truth of the museum.

My take on the concept of the ‘Imaginary Museum’ project looks at how images of a battle reconstruction, re-touched into a museum context subverts the concept of the museum.

24 hours on the coast | february 2012

A quick weekend jaunt to the coast, a walk on the beach and, a few shutter clicks later, my take on the fringe of the sea in Bridlington on Yorkshire’s coast.

Ice Shapes

A frozen canal. Ice ruptured and smashed – then healed. This collection of 16 photographs examines the surface of a frozen canal which has been violently broken and has since re-frozen. Like scars on a wound these blemishes demonstrate nature in action and reflect on the frailties of humanity. Pages: 16 | Size: A5 (landscape) | B&W | View…… Continue reading Ice Shapes

Bettakultcha at the Corn Exchange

“Come spend an evening watching PowerPoint presentations. No, really” – in images what the Leeds phenomenon is all about!

Crossing Poland | July 2011

This publication takes you on a journey – in a carriage, on a train – similar to journeys people take every day all over the world. But this particular journey is taken as an alien in a foreign land. Viewing how the landscape differs, how their transport system varies, how traveling without understanding the language…… Continue reading Crossing Poland | July 2011

The tent that Jon made

This storybook dares you into a world far from nice, a place where creatures are unfriendly, unhelpful, unkind. What you will see is not easy on the soul it’ll pray on your mind and take a heavy toll. And, as reward, the garish and the vile is all you’ll have found But these are the…… Continue reading The tent that Jon made

one per cent of one year

Back in 2006 I selected photography as a hobby. This book highlights some of the images shot in this first year.

A year of zines

the story is blue | july 2011

[better_gallery template=horizontal resize=true ][/better_gallery] Throughout 2011 I created a series of small catalogues or zines relating to visits to specific places – these places have been both close and distant from my home location but one intent has remained throughout – to create a sense of that place as I saw it and to share…… Continue reading A year of zines