Look, Know #1, 2013
Quinnell wrinkled his nose. The incident room offered breathable air made up of two parts male sweat to one part bad food. The team Pankhurst had put together were chatting at desks littered with open files, humming computers, and steaming coffee. Adams sat by the window, twirling a biro between the fingers. Quinnell picked up the murder book and weighed it in his hand. He looked at the faces around the room – the indolent, the incompetent and the untrustworthy. He was in good company for he was all three. Donohue walked in, raising the tone slightly.
“I’ve got the guest-list,” he said, handing a sheet of paper to Quinnell. “Looks like a few members of the criminal fraternity have got an interest in art,” he added.
Look, Know #2, 2013
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Look, Know is the A-side of a 1982 7″ single by The Fall, released on Kamera Records. You can listen to it here.
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The Future Is Papier Mâché 
I can see these now.
Just wonder what they thought when they saw you!
FM
Good. It must have just been a passing glitch.
The man didn’t see me, and the woman just kind of shook her head and went on with her breakfast. Don’t think the other woman saw me either. I’m getting better at being “invisible”…Thanks, FM.
The narrative in the photographs is fantastic. I absorbed them for as good while before reading your text, which is great too.
I wonder what these people would think about being drawn into your story – finding themselves ‘implicated’… Fascinating work, Richard!
Thanks very much, Karen – I’m really glad you like this. Yes, on the one hand I’d love to know, and on the other I don’t want to face anyone’s ire 🙂
Maybe the invisible man, but your great photos aren’t… 🙂 🙂
🙂 Hey, thanks very much, Drake! Much appreciated.
Ah, Richard, brilliant storyboard! The first photo -especially- is sooooooooo good!!!! 🙂
Thanks so much, Marina! I’m really glad you like it – some people have such an intense gaze (which I don’t think I’ll ever get with a straight portrait). 🙂
fantastic! Very involving pictures and words.
Thanks so much, Emily! Really glad you like them.
Looking good Richard, love the intensity in the eyes and faces.
Thanks very much, Leanne – much appreciated!
really like that way of story telling!
I’m really glad you like it, Inge! Thanks very much.
So very good Richard! I’m particularly taken with the curve of the woman’s white shoe-marvelous!
Thanks very much, Elena! Yes, that shoe seems to hold the balance of the composition 🙂
Observant, but unobserved… maybe except for the woman in the cafe window. I like the way you’ve caught 3 different aspects of presence.
Yes, I’m working on my invisibility. Glad you like it. Thanks very much, EllaDee.
I love the second photo something slightly whimsical about her stern face and the reflected text from the bus advert. Nice combo
Thanks very much, Leon. Yes, she’s there but not there, I think.
“Pay as you go just got serious.” They weren’t serious before?
Alternative slogan: “Pay as you go – we were just a joke”
🙂 Excellent!
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Very interesting shots. I think the guy in the first one is a Bond villain!
Thanks very much, Nancy. I wonder what he could be planning…
Oh, just a bit of world domination I should think…
While I like all of these, there’s something about that top one which keeps drawing me back. So many unanswered questions, maybe.
It’s a really ambiguous gaze, isn’t it? Shades of all sorts of things going on. Thanks very much, Alex.
Ah! Three treats, Richard!
Ha, ha, thanks very much, Ashley!
Nice images again, Mr G! I love the cafe portrait, although she doesn’t seem quite as pleased, lol… 🙂
Thanks very much, Richard! 🙂 Yes, quite…
ciao! absorbed, absorbing…they thought they were invisible…
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Yes, absolutely absorbed… Thanks very much, TBD!
Great prose. Are you ever going to give us the full story, Richard?
I really like these photos you do, where there is a frame as part of the picture – like in the last image.
Thanks very much, Alison. That’s a good question – I’m not sure – the novel’s on a hiatus at the moment. I’m thinking about other forms though…
Great work again, Richard, I particularly love the second photograph, again so many scratches and colours and shapes and I love the expression on the woman’s face.
Thanks so much, Cheryl. Yes, I love busy images – and she kind of anchors this one.
Love all three shots, but there’s something about that middle one that really gets me. I think it’s her white coffee cup and those white sneakers.
Really glad you like them, Jennifer. Yes, I think her sneaker plays a big part in the composition.
So compelling and full of suspense . . .
Thanks very much, Patti! Glad they do something…
Great shots. You do have a knack with framing these window/reflection shots. The third shot is brilliant, great framing and I think the slight blurring and the subject matter make for a menacing image – like a shot from a horror film (for some reason I’m reminded of the Japanese version of the Ring)
I have to admit, I’ve never seen The Ring. Glad the shot worked, though. Thanks very much, Stevie.
Hey Richard, How have you been?
I see a change in style, I like them very much. What’s brewing up there? :))
I’m good thanks, Arjun – a bit end-of-yeary but OK. Ha, ha – yes, a bit more direct. Seriousness is brewing, but I’m not sure how it’s going to manifest itself yet. Glad you like them.
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You’ve got some very interesting pictures here… more thought provoking than aesthetic.
Thanks very much, Shimon. I like to think of them as stripped back.
Ohh, fascinating images and text. The first shot, in particular, is just packed with tension.
Yes, I’d love to know what he was thinking about. Thanks very much, Melanie.