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Picture Summer on Kodak Film is a book by photographer Jason Fulford about light and time. The title comes from an advertisement on the shop wall where Fulford bought his first camera.
Fulford’s book Picture Summer on Kodak Film is published by MackPinterest
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The pictures were made over three years, as Fulford travelled across Canada, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, the US and Vietnam
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The different locations come together in the book to create a fictional place, an imagined desert town with its own internal logic
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A metal watch curiously worn over a wristband
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A poem by Canadian sisters Gillian and Heather Frise plays out through the pages:
Fell down on my jog / in a lot full of golden rod /
Didn’t get up or shout out / the pollen choked my lungs / I’m lying here next to a lone shoe / and an empty pack of Player’s LightPinterest
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The poem has a refrain:
Still here / Hellooooooooo.Pinterest
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The book is full of pleasing yet slightly uncanny scenes
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Fulford celebrates the slipperiness of meaning in his photographs
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Fulford says: ‘The picture is always relative to something else – another picture, words or the viewer’s own mood and memory’
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Fulford adds: ‘The image is fixed, but the meaning is relative, like time’
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