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All images copyright Paul Woods 2011

Being one of the few people in the world to never use a film camera - apart from the disposable ones and an advantix ( I really started my photography with a digital back in 2001). May 2011 I picked up an old eos500 35mm film camera and have coupled it with a 50mm 1.2f - this works like a dream, I miss the multiple auto focus points of my 1d though but 35mm is full frame ! I picked up some out of date 200 asa Kodak colour plus and shot with it - I am absolutely over the moon with the results ! I love the lack of contrast in the scans and the actual film surface - and bits of dust between the glass and the negatives. It is all so tactile compared to the ultra clean digital .

Humans are silver pinballs on silver pinball tables governed by the physics and gravity of our pinball table EARTH ! We are born from the free ball the product of our spherical parents and in this vast globe of a pinball table the very point of our birth our local area is of vital importance. This localised upbringing and the objects in direct vicinity that we rebound off shape our path in life. This pinball table has a safety device or a training stage where influence of the paddles is curbed and curtailed so the influence of the local area and our parent spheres is slowly changed without our noticing. This is physics, this is predestination and inevitability – are we so governed by our surroundings that we fall between the paddles and are doomed to start over again or has the control of the paddles more of an influence on our destination. We are metal spheres that bounce, that have weight and inertia physically our encounters with game table objects should have a finite reac...

Name : Paul Woods Working mainly in photography currently having exhibited in New York's world cultural centre in a group show submitting images through the internet entitled "Poppies". Also working in illustration , a collaborative project in America again with a Spanish/English speaking poet, again submitted images digitally while keeping the originals and having a first solo show in Listowel St. Johns arts centre. Working in digital collage and later drawing with black ball point pen. Woods is of the belief if Leonardo Da Vinci was around he would draw with a bic pen and while in Italy a couple of years ago he walked into a shop and asked for a pen and received a bic – this made him smile. Also working in digital media film and animation and audio visual web based media, he has been working on a stereo 3d short animation for a number of years written and directed by himself. He sees his work going in many directions but always involving computers even though s...