Been traveling the world the last two summers. Photo-documenting the more-than-a-month-journeys through photography daily has made me bored at this medium. And thus I was fiddling with typography and illustration for a two years now, until I came back to photography through the UBCLE photo exhibition: The Sublime, the Humble and the Beautiful [link] Check it out at the AMS Art Gallery in the Student Union Building at UBC, Vancouver.

The series I presented is from my UK backpacking trip in the summer of 07, where BritRail took me from Manchester to Wales, the West, the South and the North of the United Kingdom under one pass. Beauty on the Water's Edge is the name of the series, where I stood along the side of the shoreline looking into the vast sky of emptiness and finding beauty in nothing.

UK 2007

Beauty on the Water's Edge

1. Grey Llanfairfechan [link] : a beach of rocks, ruins and desaturation

2. Green Llanfairfechan [link] : a place of greens, ponds of water and a vast space of emptiness

3. Orange Llandudno [link] : a coast of hobby fishermen, long piers and carnivals

4. Crystal St. Ives [link] : a cliff of houses, foggy mornings, and childhood in water

5. Turquoise St. Ives [link] : a shore of sand, parked boats, and rental beach chairs

6. Black St. Ives [link] : a coast of black jagged rocks, rolling waves, and eternal sunshine

7. Pink Ilfracombe [link] : a seafront of metal fences, cement walk paths, and millions of clouds

8. Cerulean Mull [link] : an isle of giant boulders, steel frames of unknown purposes, and a castle ruin

9. Ash Liverpool [link] : a shoreline of floating garbage, uneven puddles in rough sand, and a colorless city