The Longitude Latitude series of work was started and developed during my second visit to Iceland in August 2010. Taking various shots of the extreme landscape throughout my trip, I decided to name them only by the co-ordinates of the locations visited. This series is ongoing with a film piece to accompany the photography.
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Before I went back to Iceland in 2010 I read the book Moondust by Andrew Smith who wrote the account of finding the nine surviving Apollo astronauts and basically asking them how did they cope emotionally after visiting the Moon.
In Iceland I visited Askja, an interior area of the country that the Apollo Astronauts trained before their mission to the Moon.
The lucky ones to visit the actual surface had limited time and a list of scientific duties to carry out. The human urge to look, explore and experience was often restricted and left some of the astronauts unfulfilled.
Iceland is the closest I will ever come to a lunar-like experience and it led me to think how often we ourselves when travelling on planet earth are unable to absorb the entire beauty of what we see. We take endless photos and videos that don't quite fill that emotional void we can be left with when we leave a place. The film I shot as part of Longitude, Latitude has a series of quite short clips of locations only identified by it's coordinates and the footage slowed down to try and prolong the experience. The natural phenomena is only experienced for a short moment before it moves onto something else, leaving you wanting to see a little bit more. A frustration that is so minor compared to those that walked on the moon
LONGITUDE, LATITUDE from Pauline Woolley on Vimeo.
Whilst away in Snowdonia in October 2011 I was able to continue taking photographs and film for the LONGITUDE, LATITUDE series. These two photographs were taken only a few minutes apart 600 metres up the Miners Track on Snowdon. The immediate change in weather was breath-taking along with the changing aspects of light.
Click here to read for information regarding this series of work.
