Martin Wilson

Martin Wilson is a photographer that works with contact sheet prints. I came across this photographer on a blog and was intrigued by how he perfected this without re- cutting or pasting anything digitally or even after he shoots.  

"I’ve arrived at a way of working where I put every frame on display. The entire film is visible. The numbers underneath each frame show that each picture is taken consecutively.  Each work usually takes months to complete, as each frame is obsessively taken in sequence. No pasting together after the event, no cheating in Photoshop!  My working method is rather labour intensive; I build my images up frame by frame, using film. Each frame is taken sequentially, as you see it. If I make a mistake or take a frame out of place, I re-shoot the film from the beginning! Once the film is developed, I cut the strip into shorter lengths and scan it, then assemble the scans into a large contact sheet. It's not till then that I get to see the final picture myself. If it has worked the individual frames should join up into a composite image. If it hasn’t, I cry, and usually start again! I think it's interesting the way the pictures act as records of little (sometimes not so little) journeys; each frame documenting one moment in time and space. But there’s no doubt the whole process can be a little nerve racking! The works are all records of real journeys, the visual remnants of hours walking or cycling round town, bringing to life the unheard voices of the city."

When clicking on all of his pictures he gives a list of the locations of these signs and such that he has shot.  In the photo oranges and lemons, he had to start over twice.  He started in September 04 and finishes February 05.