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The project was the first to start using the 'photoimpressionist' form of photography. The collection of photographs started in the early 90's and went onto 2002. The original idea was to record the street life of Covent Garden (

Fun fairs and all that glows and spins, the photographs are from various parts of the London and South East.

Fair Impressions.

hence the name). Then to put it in to semi-verse as if it was a day in a diary of a visitor to this strange concrete garden.

In 2005 returning home along the M25 twilight was arriving, for a change I was the passenger. The ever darkening blue seemed to clash with the red brake lights of the other cars. Expecting a row of flat red lines against the blue sky, I hadn't fore seen the peaks and drops in the road and upon processing the film the photograph title came to mind,'Wave length'. The rest of the M25 project is still following in all its colours.

After the winter carnival in Tunbridge Wells (Winter Wells), came to an end. Christmas at the Pantiles took over. Lasting only 3 years it was held only on the Pantiles with a number of seasonal street acts.

This web site contains photographs by myself Andrew Stanford, all of which are taken, processed and printed by me. Effects are done in camera and not by the digital. The work is hand printed onto Fuji archival paper via an archival processor.(Water washed not chemical washed). The only work that goes under digital process are negatives that have been damaged, the damaged is digitally removed, then sold as posters by the easyart company. Not all of the photograph have been printed for sale, please check the 'what can I buy section' or email me for special requests at;

andrew@photoimpressions.co.uk

A simple project of which came from the sight of a bag of police figures in a high street store. After looking at them closely, I noticed the amount of detail they had for such a cheap toy. It also brought back childhood memories of more specialised toys.

Mayday bank holiday 2002, while visiting Hastings, Kent. I noticed a gathering of strange people, horns, green, blackened and giants!, to mention but a few. It was was then I discovered it was the 'Jack in the Green' festival.

Photographs taken with a Lomo Holga, first holga has gone under a number of adaptions, 35mm, f124 pinhole and is at present in bit to be adapted again. The second Holga purchased in December 2007 is the official Holga pinhole, but is also used as a 35mm camera via my own 35mm system.

With the arrival of Autumn and the ever increasing colours we see with British trees I started this project in 2006 at Badgebury park in Kent. The project came about due to the lack of nature photography in my collection of work. 2007 the colours came from Knole park, 2008 the colours came from Hyde park.

Or the 'Many Impressions of Dance', is a collections of one off photographs involving dance. Usual chance discoveries while out and about with the camera.

One off photograph, and small groups of photographs that haven't collected enough together to form a project. This area has more experimental work, including Polaroid and light painting photographs.

This used to be a festival where Regent Street was closed for the day, allowing different attractions like fair ground ride onto the street. Now the event is a cultural one. On the first occasion, stalls and dancers from all over India jammed the street.

A one off event held out side of the Sadlers Wells theatre. Dancers and colourfull people filled the area all around the theatre, along with market stalls selling South American goods.

Held at the classic area of the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells. This was a three day event held once a year, where Georgian characters would act out a number of scandals. Of which would reveal them selves as the weekend went on.

On the last weekend of December each year, this event use to bring amazing acts to the streets of Tunbridge wells. The original idea for the project was similar to 'Movement in the Garden', where it was set to verse by an on looker. But due to the amount of acts and photographs even with the best photographs of the many events chosen the idea never came to life. Winter Wells was the title, and a few of the early photographs still have the lines for the verse in their title.

(This project was updated August 2009 to include all of the carnivals into one site section).

Originally this event would start near London bridge and travel through the Elephant and castle onto Burgess park, where the main musical event would take place. In 2008 the event started at the Elephant and castle and go on to the park. Despite the amazing show with people from all over South America show off their culture and colours this event is sadly reduced each year.

( From August 2009 all of the New Year Parade photograph will be placed onto one site folder).

2002 was the start of a regular visit to the New Year parade in London, once only seen briefly on the television before hand it became a yearly project. The Parade mainly involves colleges from America and a number of organizations from around the London area.

A yearly event that starts at the Embankment tube station and marches on and the Blackfiars bridge to the Royal Festival Hall. Starts after sunset to display the colour of the various floats and spot lit dancers.

A project started in 2006, using a different type of film camera and a more abstract ideas of photography. Increased grain and a look into colour reflecting off of objects or coloured shadows cast upon surfaces. Due to the way photographed these images can only be reproduce in 10" x 8", so enlargements may have to be created via a digital process.

Originally started in 1992 with the photograph 'Channel Surfer', by taking photographs of analog television screen slightly out of signal. The project was not placed onto the web site until later due to the fact that it was taken on slide and with my darkroom geared for negative they couldn't be displayed. The arrival of scanning equipment and a digital enlarger allows to the project to be seen.

Random photographs blown up to a very large size and an A4 sheet of colour paper exposed to image. The A4 becomes the original, these are then scanned and reproduced via a digital enlarger or by easyart.com

An almost monochrome section of image, still taken on colour film and inspired and taken the snow of April 2008. The snow of early 2009 expanded the collection.

The First non London/Southeast project, also the first to shot over several days on location. The famous town and lights by day and night. A second shoot was taken in September 2009.

An off shoot of the 'Blackpool' project, still in its early stages this collection will have photographs of seaside towns from around the country.

A quick link section of the work that can be purchased from this web site, ( not all of the photographs are for sale). The top of the page is the most popular photograph.

Displays the latest photographs taken, this collection spans back about one year to give the site visitor an idea of the work taken most recently.

A project that can about while watching con-trails one September morning, a dim and distant future, a dying persons memories are revealed in picture form to a world that has forgotten it due to pollution.