Red Dwarf

Doing what I enjoy the most abstracting the crap out of architecture. In this case the Colosseum. One of my mentors in photography told me once I needed to stop photographing older buildings and focus on more modern stuff. They had a fair point and really didn't go back as a result  but when in Rome went back to my roots. 

Walked all around the Colosseum and found these gems on the backside.

Gives off a real surface of Mars vibe.  

Think the sequence here works well with the intro and outro images kind of completing a circle metaphorically and physically. Might work well as a 3 x 3 square with the first and last in the corners.

Would have been interesting to see what I could have done had I had full access to the inside rather than just walking around the outside. 

National Treasure: The Colosseum

The idea for the national treasure series came from the white trash and Melbourne cup series. I wanted to go to a bunch of national monuments in the USA and capture bins overflowing with rubbish if for no other reason than I liked the juxtaposition. I never got around to doing that but going to the Colosseum and seeing all the trash lying around was quite apparent so I found my way in and somewhat resurrected the idea.

Thinking about it after the fact really should have done a hero image a full wide shot rather than just all these detail shots to round out the series.