Welcome
The website contains images I’ve created over the last 5 years.
Photography is something I have loved since I was a child. One of my earliest memories of taking photographs was with my parent’s Brownie 127. I made my friends repeatedly jump off a wartime coastal defence look out into the sand dunes at Hemsby during a holiday when I was 11, to record the magic of freezing them leaping through the air.
My first camera was a Zeiss Ikon, bought second hand for £5 when I was 18. The lens had been taken off at some point and glued back on badly, so it never focussed well, but that didn’t seem to matter, it generated slightly eerie images with a kind of moodiness I’d have to work hard to recreate today.
I like experimenting, trying out effects both in the camera and in Lightroom or Photoshop. I have a fascination with close ups and blur, and creating distortion and obscuring or subverting what is there. I love night photography and misty days, rain and decay. (All the conditions basically where you think twice before going out!)
The freezing and passing of time are key to photography and I try to accent these elements in my images in terms of the techniques I use, and also in the content. When a moment is frozen, the passing of time is evident because you know when you view it that moment has gone forever. This can make it poignant and fragile – a quality I like.
When the shutter is released, something is exposed (in a life sense as well as a technical sense!) It can’t be taken back – it has a vulnerability and permanence which appears to be a contradiction but isn’t.
The drawings and monoprints are more recent, they too are experiments.
In places I’ve tried using photography to change the drawings and also intervene in the monoprint process to create a different effect. It feels good to mix up the media like this and not feel restricted by traditional form and use.
All images are copyright © Jenny Escritt. All rights reserved.
Photography is something I have loved since I was a child. One of my earliest memories of taking photographs was with my parent’s Brownie 127. I made my friends repeatedly jump off a wartime coastal defence look out into the sand dunes at Hemsby during a holiday when I was 11, to record the magic of freezing them leaping through the air.
My first camera was a Zeiss Ikon, bought second hand for £5 when I was 18. The lens had been taken off at some point and glued back on badly, so it never focussed well, but that didn’t seem to matter, it generated slightly eerie images with a kind of moodiness I’d have to work hard to recreate today.
I like experimenting, trying out effects both in the camera and in Lightroom or Photoshop. I have a fascination with close ups and blur, and creating distortion and obscuring or subverting what is there. I love night photography and misty days, rain and decay. (All the conditions basically where you think twice before going out!)
The freezing and passing of time are key to photography and I try to accent these elements in my images in terms of the techniques I use, and also in the content. When a moment is frozen, the passing of time is evident because you know when you view it that moment has gone forever. This can make it poignant and fragile – a quality I like.
When the shutter is released, something is exposed (in a life sense as well as a technical sense!) It can’t be taken back – it has a vulnerability and permanence which appears to be a contradiction but isn’t.
The drawings and monoprints are more recent, they too are experiments.
In places I’ve tried using photography to change the drawings and also intervene in the monoprint process to create a different effect. It feels good to mix up the media like this and not feel restricted by traditional form and use.
All images are copyright © Jenny Escritt. All rights reserved.