David Fearn

@davidfearn.bsky.social

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HoD & Professor of Greek, Classics & AH, University of Warwick – lyric poetics esp.: https://tinyurl.com/5bzbk5xu Here for the intellectual serendipity. When I can, large-format 🎞 photographer: https://t.co/B4aSZJlSiM

Cyanotype print from 10x8 film negative, macro of 3 paper planes in a vertical line, with Greek Lyric text photocopied onto them. Grey-green/pink tone achieved with toner made from avocado stones
10x8 macro cyanotype print of 3 paper planes in a vertical line, with Greek Lyric text photocopied onto them Warm brown/orange/green tone achieved with Marjoram toning.
Girl in red dress walking away from camera with onlooking waiter, Piazza San Marco, Venice.
Canal barge window with RSPB sticker and a curtain with a wading bird picture adjacent. Leica M11, 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH
High-contrast B&W photograph of a couple of bicycles propped up against a wooden staircase in a pool of light in the centre of the frame, surrounded by deep shadows and a couple of canal barges.
High-contrast B&W panoramic photograph of a town-centre Job Centre exterior in top half of frame; job centre sign to left, 'try harder' daubed on wall to right and cordoned off with steel barricade; foreground is poory repaired potholed street with fading 'keep clear' paint
16x9 vertical view out of Tate Modern window onto vertical skyscraper and crane; muted cyan and yellow colours with deep shadows. Leica M11, 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH
Venice Rooftops from San Marco campanile Leica M11, 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH
B&W photo of a job centre, with "TRY HARDER" daubed on the wall outside. Cordoned off with steel fencing, presumably for cleaning off, but not yet erased.
Pic of Greek pot in Classics department antiquities room window display. Shot at wide-open aperture for prominent specular-highlight 'bokeh balls' that this spectacular lens produces. Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M
Image of Green Alkanet (small blue flowers) against a background of green bramble leaves. muted colours, shallow depth of field, cool low light early evening. Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M at f1/.4
Super-wideangle view of the basement of Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris Leica M11, 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH
Analysis of 17,000 throw-ins as dissertation component of UEFA Pro football coaching licence.
Apples and sugar ready to bake a tarte tatin.
Tate Modern Staircase Wide View Leica M11, 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH
Mario Telò's powerful book 'Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis'
Portrait of my left hand, low light against a dark blue background Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M at f/8 Leica M11 handgrip Gitzo 3540LS + Arca Cube GP Leica Fotos App on phone for remote shutter release
Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M at f/1.4 Manual exposure, natural light, white balance at 5500k Leica M11 hand grip Gitzo 3540LS Tripod+Arca Cube Head Leica Fotos on iPhone 13 Pro Max for preview, focus, shutter release, camera at head-height
Low-light self-portrait of hand against an unreflective dark-blue background Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux M at f/1.4 Manual exposure, natural light, 5500k white balance 12 second self-timer Leica M11 hand grip Gitzo 3540LS tripod +Arca Cube tripod head Leica Fotos on iPhone 13 Pro Max for preview, focus, shutter release
Def Leppard Hysteria
Service corridor in multi-storey carpark/shopping centre, with associated retail detritus (bins, barrows, trolleys) Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M, shot at f/1.4
Discarded Oasis drink bottle Cyan-green label on bottle matching the soft cool cyan-blue reflected light of concrete floor and wall, a gloomy February afternoon in a carpark-gulag. Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M