https://robball.co.uk Rob Ball Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:17:38 +0000 https://robball.co.uk en https://robball.co.uk/Newsletter Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:31:09 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Newsletter ︎&nbsp; Occasional Newsletter Email Address * /* real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups <img class="refferal_badge" src="https://digitalasset.intuit.com/render/content/dam/intuit/mc-fe/en_us/images/intuit-mc-rewards-text-dark.svg" alt="Intuit Mailchimp" style="width: 220px; height: 40px; display: flex; padding: 2px 0px; justify-content: center; align-items: center;"> https://robball.co.uk/Index Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:38:49 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Index Rob Ball Resort The Call of the Sun Arcade Carpets Silent Coast Tintypes Beach Studios Lockdown Webcams Info BooksWriting Newsletter <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60592efe229dde69c38e7a69c6fa22dd9be641d1bf93dfce31acee3b36c017ce/_ROB5840.jpg" data-mid="244212635" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60592efe229dde69c38e7a69c6fa22dd9be641d1bf93dfce31acee3b36c017ce/_ROB5840.jpg" /> https://robball.co.uk/Beach-Portraits Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:02:38 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Beach-Portraits ︎ Jaywick, 2022On 6/7th August 2022 I visited the beaches of Jaywick Sands to make portraits of the community and its visitors using 10 x 8” Polaroid film. This is a project loosely based on a re-working of the Victorian Beach Photographer and is, increasingly, about positive interactions and conversations.The resulting film and photographs were displayed at the Jaywick Martello tower in September 2022. This project was supported by the Essex Arts and Cultural Fund. <img width="2074" height="1500" width_o="2074" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b991b21d93eab0cea424eb0b48838ddc8ec24e5e44e4186fb94c06fa7280f78/jaywickpola-2.jpg" data-mid="169436534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b991b21d93eab0cea424eb0b48838ddc8ec24e5e44e4186fb94c06fa7280f78/jaywickpola-2.jpg" /> <img width="2003" height="2762" width_o="2003" height_o="2762" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1cb039eefda95ab67efd76b8de1238386deabacc739c292ebd0712b5ae90184e/jaywickpola-9.jpg" data-mid="169436544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cb039eefda95ab67efd76b8de1238386deabacc739c292ebd0712b5ae90184e/jaywickpola-9.jpg" /> <img width="2062" height="1500" width_o="2062" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe5bc769f29f9c2bbb12042816d741ae1e97fd95d09bb1aa47dd22854c9c34e8/jaywickpola-7.jpg" data-mid="169436573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe5bc769f29f9c2bbb12042816d741ae1e97fd95d09bb1aa47dd22854c9c34e8/jaywickpola-7.jpg" /> Jamaica Day, 201710x8" Instant Portrait Event, supported by Arts Council England. Film by Jason Pay.Images shown as part of the exhibiton and publication Seaside: Photographed at Turner Contemporary, Margate in 2019 and touring from 2019-22. <img width="694" height="1000" width_o="694" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ae3171ee5ca660ffe87d8bed07a1e1f3cfda28dcbde03f52b5b3bc54b48bed9/savannah.jpg" data-mid="169436385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/694/i/8ae3171ee5ca660ffe87d8bed07a1e1f3cfda28dcbde03f52b5b3bc54b48bed9/savannah.jpg" /> <img width="703" height="1000" width_o="703" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e99776ff4adc92e6ebab3a5ca70cc681ead2c112d8d622f6e8923ee4cfae5c20/christine.jpg" data-mid="169436381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/703/i/e99776ff4adc92e6ebab3a5ca70cc681ead2c112d8d622f6e8923ee4cfae5c20/christine.jpg" /> <img width="733" height="1000" width_o="733" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd9d03c11441c88a7383306ffa2f401a30196cf819872765acff5d9e5f6e034e/Gari.jpg" data-mid="169436382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/733/i/dd9d03c11441c88a7383306ffa2f401a30196cf819872765acff5d9e5f6e034e/Gari.jpg" /> https://robball.co.uk/Sun Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:17:38 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Sun ︎ <img width="1800" height="1440" width_o="1800" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b5e5b8cba70e3694bef5b4da53311a6cb2d98550e7c78226bfe999548172a08/_ROB3509.jpg" data-mid="225327247" border="0" data-scale="58" alt="Magic Robin Hood Archival Pigment Print, 2023" data-caption="Magic Robin Hood &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b5e5b8cba70e3694bef5b4da53311a6cb2d98550e7c78226bfe999548172a08/_ROB3509.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adef86b0aa806a7386d23ac93cb92cbf32d8efb547742e375ea5bc35ab1029dc/frame2.jpg" data-mid="224994320" border="0" alt="Party Time / Last Stop Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure 28cm x 21cm, 2025" data-caption="Party Time / Last Stop &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure &lt;p&gt; 28cm x 21cm, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adef86b0aa806a7386d23ac93cb92cbf32d8efb547742e375ea5bc35ab1029dc/frame2.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1440" width_o="1800" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6baf33e33a84e5bb9f5e509556710b4af5ff8b4530a36a1373c9198b635c99f/OrangeBoat.jpg" data-mid="225388647" border="0" alt="Levante Beach (orange boat) Archival Pigment Print, 2024" data-caption="Levante Beach (orange boat) &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6baf33e33a84e5bb9f5e509556710b4af5ff8b4530a36a1373c9198b635c99f/OrangeBoat.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2ff8c81b803954c2c0891ddb8a8fd241da5f2d385daf9e9c20122f186b88ba2/finalBrochure02.jpg" data-mid="224996547" border="0" alt="Balcony Archival Pigment Print, 2025 100cm x 80cm" data-caption="Balcony &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2025 &lt;p&gt; 100cm x 80cm" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2ff8c81b803954c2c0891ddb8a8fd241da5f2d385daf9e9c20122f186b88ba2/finalBrochure02.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1909" width_o="1500" height_o="1909" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6f479505660955bc976fc374221e73691309adc5ba3cf7a4e2f39dbccfc9ce1/IMG_9763.jpg" data-mid="224995839" border="0" alt="Healthy Golden Suntan Block Print on Colorplan Paper 35cm x 28cm, 2025" data-caption="Healthy Golden Suntan &lt;p&gt; Block Print on Colorplan Paper &lt;p&gt; 35cm x 28cm, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6f479505660955bc976fc374221e73691309adc5ba3cf7a4e2f39dbccfc9ce1/IMG_9763.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efc230e90bc5d99cc141e6a3a643a32bde28295309427f10217e3bf94fc52ff9/14a.jpg" data-mid="224996596" border="0" alt="Benidorm Cityscape Archival Pigment Print, 2023" data-caption="Benidorm Cityscape &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efc230e90bc5d99cc141e6a3a643a32bde28295309427f10217e3bf94fc52ff9/14a.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dec1ea1cc2fab67a9b2ce4d39a28e013d61803574c8a3d437b35a14743b0003d/_ROB3352-Edit.jpg" data-mid="228539122" border="0" alt="Pueblo Hotel Archival Pigment Print, 2025" data-caption="Pueblo Hotel &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dec1ea1cc2fab67a9b2ce4d39a28e013d61803574c8a3d437b35a14743b0003d/_ROB3352-Edit.jpg" /> <img width="2100" height="1680" width_o="2100" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b64cbbc08db1ea8053c40a22df6593f0f7d33dc9db6e4d7b83079a12913c6d77/6583006078f771643deecec5dca6159fa212c988b567d682e1d236bc7e372d7ecb21294a.jpg" data-mid="226345451" border="0" alt=" Cala del Mal Pas (photo) Archival Pigment Print, 2024" data-caption=" Cala del Mal Pas (photo) &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b64cbbc08db1ea8053c40a22df6593f0f7d33dc9db6e4d7b83079a12913c6d77/6583006078f771643deecec5dca6159fa212c988b567d682e1d236bc7e372d7ecb21294a.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1132016591c1dd64fc876afbc1df206df751fad44d2fd08b4b56d567b4941116/RB_sunchest.jpg" data-mid="224994322" border="0" alt="Sun / Chest Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure 30cm x 21cm, 2025" data-caption="Sun / Chest &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure &lt;p&gt; 30cm x 21cm, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1132016591c1dd64fc876afbc1df206df751fad44d2fd08b4b56d567b4941116/RB_sunchest.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2000" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a6db3e0e48b7515f71bc1dd4b873f398bc9d7a56b41fc6f0a97d0d0555ece5b/brochure069.jpg" data-mid="225327214" border="0" alt="Castle / Mini Golf Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure 28cm x 21cm, 2025" data-caption="Castle / Mini Golf &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure &lt;p&gt; 28cm x 21cm, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a6db3e0e48b7515f71bc1dd4b873f398bc9d7a56b41fc6f0a97d0d0555ece5b/brochure069.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb23da86d8e83a0655c3cca0f7380efd236407687c104e50bacb08e7782dca93/fosters.jpg" data-mid="225388410" border="0" alt="Foster's Bar Archival Pigment Print, 2024" data-caption="Foster's Bar &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb23da86d8e83a0655c3cca0f7380efd236407687c104e50bacb08e7782dca93/fosters.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2101" width_o="1500" height_o="2101" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec241303d5cf3e47fd20921a11e8ee63e10b7f6c1c5bcf148195f32967175f20/postcards0009.jpg" data-mid="225498765" border="0" alt="Hotel / Bikini Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure 30cm x 21cm, 2025" data-caption="Hotel / Bikini &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure &lt;p&gt; 30cm x 21cm, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec241303d5cf3e47fd20921a11e8ee63e10b7f6c1c5bcf148195f32967175f20/postcards0009.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d3f9d06fa8f4ee6e89dcac28fda05792f0d0fcd67027b8fcd8ef257e4d92662/brochure026.jpg" data-mid="224996176" border="0" alt="Diver Archival Pigment Print, 2025 100cm x 80cm" data-caption="Diver &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2025 &lt;p&gt; 100cm x 80cm" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d3f9d06fa8f4ee6e89dcac28fda05792f0d0fcd67027b8fcd8ef257e4d92662/brochure026.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2110" width_o="1500" height_o="2110" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d87858d689e1f0bf4786d4ec4d0cc00820536f2ab0f6efcfe457bc5870e977a/horizonEngland.jpg" data-mid="226345404" border="0" alt="Horizon / England Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure 29cm x 20cm, 2025" data-caption="Horizon / England &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print and Vintage Travel Brochure &lt;p&gt; 29cm x 20cm, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d87858d689e1f0bf4786d4ec4d0cc00820536f2ab0f6efcfe457bc5870e977a/horizonEngland.jpg" /> <img width="1125" height="1406" width_o="1125" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1895fef0078595ce90ea691461f0628dfb1cc518352ece2965bb9598e0fd3ecf/15.jpg" data-mid="224079827" border="0" alt="Levante Palm (sunset) Archival Pigment Print, 2023" data-caption="Levante Palm (sunset) &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1895fef0078595ce90ea691461f0628dfb1cc518352ece2965bb9598e0fd3ecf/15.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de019c1c27e6a9eeaad2230c77f447e0182097cc0be2169244445baf49e3915a/_ROB8216.jpg" data-mid="224998788" border="0" alt="The Western Saloon (night) Archival Pigment Print, 2024" data-caption="The Western Saloon (night) &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de019c1c27e6a9eeaad2230c77f447e0182097cc0be2169244445baf49e3915a/_ROB8216.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1440" width_o="1800" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf4a8ef588c98a4279bb71e284546fed5a4fb4ce0aff51216e636d1570bfeaca/_ROB6086-2.jpg" data-mid="225139577" border="0" alt="Sunset Sea Archival Pigment Print, 2024" data-caption="Sunset Sea &lt;p&gt; Archival Pigment Print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf4a8ef588c98a4279bb71e284546fed5a4fb4ce0aff51216e636d1570bfeaca/_ROB6086-2.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1247" width_o="1500" height_o="1247" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed427be467dc54d0215a31914d41a63c918109152d2d3a7b5f0804c83619f057/RB_benidormLR.jpg" data-mid="224997130" border="0" alt="Benidorm Published by Hoxton Mini Press, Feb 2025" data-caption="Benidorm &lt;p&gt; Published by Hoxton Mini Press, Feb 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed427be467dc54d0215a31914d41a63c918109152d2d3a7b5f0804c83619f057/RB_benidormLR.jpg" /> The Call of the Sun is a multidisciplinary project which focuses on the explosive growth of the British package holiday with a particular focus on Benidorm - often described as the birthplace of mass tourism. It explores how package holidays are marketed to working- and lower-middle-class families through language and imagery designed to both excite and reassure first-time travellers. --- Benidrom, published by Hoxton Mini Press is available to&nbsp;order now.&nbsp; ‘These pictures are less about a point of view, or an event, than an observation. They are softly nuanced but precise. Serially calm but suddenly astonishing.’ - Lucy Davies https://robball.co.uk/Text-1 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:48:22 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Text-1 ︎ Benidorm Over 12 months, I explored Benidorm with an open mind, aware that it hosts more Spanish than English visitors. I was curious about what remained of the ‘Pan-European Holiday Utopia’ envisioned at its inception. Benidorm's reputation often precedes it, symbolizing (and drawing criticism for) mass tourism. Yet, nestled between the Puig Campana mountain and the Mediterranean Sea, the resort is full of the warmth of people enjoying themselves: the beach alive with tenderness and diversity, the bars with laughter and Sky Sports. I made this work in solitude, using the camera to frame the strange and familiar; photography for me is a solo pursuit, a way to quietly distil the madness of life and crowds into a coherence. The pictures here contain bar names I’d seen before on my travels along the UK coastline; signs outside advertise tribute acts performing versions of Adele, Dua Lipa and Tom Jones. If you stay up late enough, you can see a racy version of the classic end-of-the-pier show. The ‘strip’ in Benidorm is confined and is what it is: the ultimate inauthentic experience, but it’s undertaken knowingly and with good humour. Walk one street back, and you’ll find a Spanish town underneath the high-rises built during that accelerated, unruly period of development under Franco. The significance of accessible travel, and the package holiday in particular, is often understated. The annual holiday allowed the working and lower middle classes to branch out from Butlins and experience a new leisure reality, albeit with the comforts of home. While travel is, of course, a privilege, it should not be exclusively for the privileged. It’s something to look forward to, a time to be with the people we love, to feel the sun on our faces. Cultural enrichment might not be top of everyone’s list, but it takes all sorts, and that’s okay. For many, next year’s trip is already in the calendar. Then, back to work on Monday with a healthy glow. Rob Ball 2025 ———- Silent Coast Rob Ball‘s Silent Coast, published by Photo Editions (2022), suggests a distorted type of lyrical documentary investigation where the cruel conditions of political complications atomize the social concerns of a place and its people, reducing the everyday plight of the individual as small, unheard, and unnecessary. An opaque and uneasy accent of dissolve compounds the whisper of British life within the work. This is not the artist’s desire at work but his direct observation of a political and social condition. In the work, people are reduced to trace and are managed obliquely by the photographer’s absent consideration of their direct documentation. There are people everywhere in Silent Coast, yet not a single soul occupies the framing. Instead, we are left to examine the facade of British coastal fun-making, the architecture of amusement, and the strident vernacular realism of architectural profanity… Brad Feuerhelm on AmericanSububX ———- Funland From early morning to late evening, I walked along the front looking and re-looking, waiting for the attractions to open and documenting the flow of the crowds in the shifting light of the sun. Each seafront is both familiar and strange. A large amount of what I see, hear and smell is ubiquitous, repeated along the coastlines of our island; The Flamingo in Margate looks like The Flamingo in Yarmouth, The Change booth in Burntisland has the same neons as the one in Southsea. The beach furniture is similar, too. Palm trees (fake, real and representative) are widely used to signify that we are by the sea, somewhere exotic. The food and drinks are repetitive and repeating, the unnatural toxic hues of blue and pink and the smells of deep-fried fat coalesce with the sticky sweet aromas of the candy floss, donut machines and location-specific sticks of rock. There are moments, however, often created by geography or trend that signify a uniqueness. At the coast these repeated themes sit alongside a welcome lack of homogeny, almost a lawlessness, as buildings are adapted from the theatre to the arcade to the pound shop and often back again. This looseness is something that can only be found on the front where a year is an unusually long time. The past and present both remain visible and heritage and progress are equally celebrated and form part of the packaged attraction. I was drawn to the often epic facades of the seafront during the making of this project, these large scale graphic edifices sit alongside the parking meters and rubbish bins. As we move closer into the seafront we start to see the cracks, faded paint and signs of (over) use, these details reflecting a very modest. British ambition. Each resort has been through upturns and downturns, but all still exist in one form or another. Some limp on, unable to escape the past, others thrive, benefitting from coastal regeneration funds or more piecemeal developments from relocating out-of-towners looking for a change in lifestyle and a new beginning. This longevity, in spite of a repeated knocks, is testament to their resilience and enduring appeal. The looseness of the seafront is echoed by its inhabitants and visitors. Here people move to runaway and reconnect. Day-trippers come to play, and here we are at our most open; in our dress and attitude, here we play within the confines of the seafront package and the time-limited awayday.&nbsp; In many ways this project is a sometimes failed attempt to celebrate the coast in all its neon glory. It’s easy to be sneering, but I revere the creators of our seaside culture; the ride operators, the shopworkers, the arcade owners building frontages inspired by Las Vegas in locations without the climate, budget or glamour. These culture creators cannot rest, each year demands a refresh or redesign, in preparation for a new summer season. Life is keenly felt by the coast; the weather can be at its most extreme. Coastal resorts are full of richness and authenticity and here we are often at our most raw. The impact of people at the seafront is evident all year round, from the queues and rubbish generated by the summer visitors to the eerie dormant amusement park rides and signs with their lights out during the off peak season. It is the constant shifting of our coastal cultures which stimulated my desire to record these spaces before the next wave of changes, changes perhaps hastened by a uneasy political outlook. Regardless of our future, from Blackpool to Brighton and Rhyl to Ramsgate British coastal resorts have the richest of histories to celebrate. Rob Ball 2019 ------ Dreamlands in The Journal of Photography and Culture Margate in England and Coney Island in the United States are the locations for my long term, coastal-based photographic practice. The tintype process makes a significant contribution to this work, reflecting my growing ambivalence with contemporary photographic digitisation and the often lack of material printed images. In comparison to digital production, the tintype can appear labour-intensive, where for all its intentional and unintentional faults a singular object - held as much as seen - is created. On these humble ferro plates the fingerprints of the maker, the dust from the location, the imperfections caused by the chemicals reacting unpredictably to the environment remain fixed. For me, this obsolete process knowingly provides imperfect, handmade renditions of the subject matter, a characteristic that seems particularly appropriate in representing the fragility, and at times fractured, environment of coastal towns. Seaside resorts are historically cyclical in their popularity and from the 1970s both Margate and Coney Island suffered from a lack of economic investment and tourist interest. As a result, these coastal communities became hardened and remain prone to fickle change and broken promises. Where upward turns are once again evident, these are perhaps signified best as repair rather than simplistic regeneration or renaissance. Buildings and redundant commercial premises are being restored, signage repainted and owners prepare optimistically for a successful new season. Yet such coastal repairs also have the connotation of vulnerability and fragility, a sutured wound of under investment, all too prone to breach and it is this threat of rupture, which proves so photographically interesting. This community, commercial and cultural repair is arguably most visible on the seafront. It is here that the arcades, theme parks and cafes are located. These are the seaside attractions, the entry point where the town generates income from day-trippers and holidaymakers. Literally and metaphorically placed at the edge. Like other seaside attractions, the tintype has its own rich history at the edge. Prior to the pocket camera becoming ubiquitous it was the tintype that provided cheap, instant photographs for seaside visitors. For just a small fee beachgoers could take home a tintype souvenir as record of their visit.&nbsp; Numerous photography studios populated Margate’s seafront and Coney Island’s boardwalk, capitalizing on the demand for mementos and seaside ephemera. Both places also willingly reference this past in the present, Dreamland in Margate reopened as a Heritage Amusement Park in 2015 and Coney Island’s unique past is constantly referenced and rebranded. My own practice too seeks to evidence this past, but in dialogue with the present; the obsolescence of the esoteric tintype used knowingly. I make use of the tintype’s inherent insensitivity, with the resultant long exposures leaving mere traces of people within each frame. Here the iconic Coney’ and Margate rides: the Parachute Jump, Scenic Railway, Cyclone and Wonder Wheel all appear devoid of passengers. Deceptively empty, yet the riders are there invisibly ingrained within the image. Fairground rides dominate, looming large over the coastalscapes, omnipresent, watching and twisting, monuments to the machine age, enduring the seaside’s birth/rebirth, rupture/repair. Each tintype makes strange this complex coastal actuality, flipping ride and midway stall signage, rendering text peculiar due to the medium’s lateral reversal. Tintypes, like Coney’s boardwalk, interweave the stark reality of experience with the fantasy lands of amusement parks and these coastal locations present a culture that is messy, free, and at the edges undefined. These contemporary tintypes like constructed seaside resorts, are at once real and unreal. There is an inescapable veracity to a coastal community whilst, paradoxically, its chief offer is often escapism. As Henry Miller said of Coney Island ‘The world has become a mystic maze erected by a gang of carpenters during the night. Everything is a lie, a fake’ (Miller, 1974).[1] Rob Ball 2018 --—- Legacies of the Engaged Image: The Redemptive Beauty of Life after Death In the photographs by Robert Ball, of second hand guns and pacemakers taken from the bodies of the deceased before cremation, two sophisticated technologies are productively contrasted. The former machines were explicitly designed to remove human life, the latter to extend it. &nbsp; That the guns Ball records, laid out on a dark background as though in a museum display case, reminds us that photography’s history is closely tied in with the development of evidence-gathering. Ball’s work draws on an aesthetics of plain display, of a no-nonsense presentation of the object, an approach whose (false) neutralisation of the thing recorded strangely forces one to concentrate upon the weapon’s functional attributes. [9] Almost everything about these firearms looks to be “about” the carrying out of the act for which they were designed, though the placing of the guns on a dark backcloth might be not so much a museological conceit as a metaphor for the weapon’s hidden power, the way that the firing of a gun “can change a hundred lives in a split second” (Ball). With the pacemakers, the niceties of their workings are hidden away, firstly in their active life whilst operating inside a human body, and, secondly, even when one sees the revealed object, a generally rare sight of something that is today a quite commonly employed device. It as though Ball is visually staging the claim that whilst it is easy to take away a life, preserving and extending it, for all our scientific and rational understanding, remains one of the most technically complex and morally convoluted issues we face.&nbsp; Peter Suchin ———- On Pacemakers Ball’s photographic study of pacemakers ‘happened by accident’ coming out of a previous two year documentary project on morgues.&nbsp; Pacemakers are removed from their owners before burial or cremation and the artist gathered twenty-five specimens which he photographed with a large format camera in a studio.&nbsp; Ball was compelled to the visual scrutinisation; ‘everything about them fascinated me, each on representing a life (or death), each one powering a body until its final moments – before the human or the machine gave up’. In presenting his prints of these devices as clinically as possibly Ball highlights an indexical function or objectivity of photography owing much to the industrial and architectural photographs of contemporary German photography particularly Bernd and Hiller Becher.&nbsp; There is also a more surreal and disturbing element to the series of photographs if one considers the objects in terms of a metamorphose from inert mechanism with only slight variations between units, to part of a living human. Though subsequently removed each pacemaker has in fact been a vital part of an individual human biology and life. Magdalene Keaney, The National Portrait Gallery https://robball.co.uk/Info Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:38:51 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Info ︎ Rob Ball is a photographer and Reader in Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University. Over the past fifteen years, he has specialised in photographing coastal resorts across Britain and beyond, exploring their evolving identities, architecture, and communities. His work examines how seaside environments—often built for entertainment and escape—are transformed over time, particularly through seasonal shifts and socioeconomic change.&nbsp; Ball has published multiple photobooks, including Dreamlands, Coney Island, Silent Coast, Benidorm, and Arcade Carpets. His Benidorm monograph offers a nuanced portrait of the Spanish resort—often deemed the birthplace of mass tourism—photographed over eighteen months with an empathetic and unjudmental eye. His exhibitions include Dreamlands at The Photographers’ Gallery, Seaside: Photographed at Turner Contemporary, and Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style at the Design Museum. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Martin Parr Foundation, and University of the Arts. ︎ Based in Whitstable, Kent, UK Contact / Commissions / Print Sales mail@robball.co.uk / +44 (0)7834 542 301 Works available as limited edition prints, contact directly. Roles / Education Director of SEAS Photography / Reader in Photography, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK PGCLT (HE), CCCU 2014 / MA Photography, UAL 2006 / NCTJ Press Photography, Norton College, Sheffield 1996 Selected Exhibitions Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style, Design Museum, Mar-Aug 2025 By the seaside, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, June-Sept 2024Signs of the Seaside, Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, Apr-Sept 2023Arcade Britannia, London Design Biennale, June 2023 Jaywick Project, Martello Tower, Jaywick Sands, August 2022Whitstable, from the series Silent Coast in Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Jun-Aug 2022Silent Coast Exhibition at The Photographers Gallery Print Sales, May 2022 Seaside: Photographed, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2019 / John Hansard Gallery 2020 / Grundy Blackpool 2021Lessons of the Hour by Isaac Julien, stills and tintypes, Memorial Art Gallery / Metro Pictures, New York, March 2019 + touring L'espace secret, Martigny, Switzerland, September 2018 New Defence Project, Coalhouse Fort, Tilbury, Aug 2018Beside The Sea, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, Aug 2017The Itinerant, Margate Festival, July 2017Tintype Studio, The Photographers' Gallery, London, July + Oct 2015Light Waves, Resort Studios, Margate, October 2015 Art Car Boot Fair, Margate, August 2015, London 2024, 2025Dreamlands, The Photographers' Gallery, London, June 2015Sea Bathers: Reflections and Responses, Tintype Studio, Margate, May 2015 Capturing Light, Silverprint, LCC Moose on the Loose, May 2015Unremarkable Stories, Exchange, Illinois State University 2013 Obsolete Studios, Turner Contemporary 2013Obsolete Studios, Format Festival, Derby 2013, 2015Paper Round#2 at The Royal Academy Summer Show 2012Ways of Looking Festival, Bradford 2011The Line of Lividity, Primo Alonso, London 2009The Redemptive Beauty of Life After Death, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham 2007 Selected Publications / Presentations From Blackpool to Benidorm (conference presentation), Congreso del Observatorio COSTA, October 2025&nbsp; Benidorm, Hoxton Mini Press, February 2025 (monograph) Arcade Carpets I &amp; II, Artist Books 2023This Pleasant Land, Hoxton Mini Press, November 2022Silent Coast,&nbsp;Photo Editions, May 2022 (monograph) Don't Press Print, conference and publication with UWE Centre for Fine Print Research / RPS 2020-21 Funland, Hoxton Mini Press, May 2019 (monograph) Seaside: Photographed, ed. by Val Williams and Karen Shepherdson, Thames and Hudson, 2019 Dreamlands, The Journal of Photography and Culture, February 2018 Miniclick Talks, Brighton, July 2017 and May 2018 Coney Island published by Dewi Lewis, June 2017 (monograph) - long listed for The Deutsche Borse Prize&nbsp;2017 Dreamlands presentation at&nbsp;Coney Island Museum, July 2016 Dreamlands published by Dewi Lewis, June 2015 (monograph) Dreamlands and SEAS Photography Lecture, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2015 Shadows Symposium, Camberwell College of Art, 2015Beyond the View (exhibition, conference and publication) ed. by Rob Ball and K.J. Shepherdson, 2014Unremarkable Stories by Rob Ball and K.J. Shepherdson, Burton Press 2012Unremarkable Stories at Prix du livre, Arles 2012 CollectionsUniversity of the Arts Collection ArchiveNational Portrait Gallery, London The Martin Parr FoundationThe Victoria &amp; Albert Museum All Images © Rob Ball 2025. No images from this site may be used without prior written permission. https://robball.co.uk/Arcade-Carpets Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:38:49 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Arcade-Carpets ︎ Arcade Carpets, Vol I &amp; II 2023 Two hand-made Artist’s Books: Volumes I &amp; II (Red and Yellow), designed in the style of a carpet swatch book. Each Volume: 40 Plates, 11” x 13”, Edition of 5 + 2APs Exhibited at: The London Design Biennale, June 23 By the Seaside, The Photographers’ Gallery, June 24 Splash! The Design Museum, March 25 In the permanent collections of The National Art Library at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London and&nbsp;The Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. Email for further info. <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/812c64de6252653348897386ef8550726947972db603b7a0bd2bb2f0b537cf1c/robball-4.jpg" data-mid="169416499" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/812c64de6252653348897386ef8550726947972db603b7a0bd2bb2f0b537cf1c/robball-4.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb1b95a8388e1fd941bc110f9bfa33925f8c4654036f3bba7510522847dec1de/robball-6.jpg" data-mid="169416579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb1b95a8388e1fd941bc110f9bfa33925f8c4654036f3bba7510522847dec1de/robball-6.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6588dda71259cda68c5523ec757badf692fdf6fc2ad9e90d5bbbf2fd842ad923/_ROB2500.jpg" data-mid="227182530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6588dda71259cda68c5523ec757badf692fdf6fc2ad9e90d5bbbf2fd842ad923/_ROB2500.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/088e8c8b7c76cffcc374e925d8155f4478fc46a55415f6ebf45926137e412d57/_ROB2499.jpg" data-mid="227182529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/088e8c8b7c76cffcc374e925d8155f4478fc46a55415f6ebf45926137e412d57/_ROB2499.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bc86927fa6ccaba3212f7670f4924140f3fbb806ebe3c1d323537f99a7c90f3/_ROB2501.jpg" data-mid="227182531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bc86927fa6ccaba3212f7670f4924140f3fbb806ebe3c1d323537f99a7c90f3/_ROB2501.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2c411cacf4d3fb0fcddd1acfbfc74b251a0a9434472f660dc98ec6681acd0e7/_ROB2155.jpg" data-mid="187900472" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2c411cacf4d3fb0fcddd1acfbfc74b251a0a9434472f660dc98ec6681acd0e7/_ROB2155.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddaba5e56f35637ebcf022e967f472d86397b208ec3fe028019456a3d12868a1/_ROB2160.jpg" data-mid="187891179" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ddaba5e56f35637ebcf022e967f472d86397b208ec3fe028019456a3d12868a1/_ROB2160.jpg" /> <img width="1019" height="988" width_o="1019" height_o="988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46d4a1ed59ba08de236878ee6a9faeeede93797bf9881937de598b43a09810b3/Screenshot-2023-06-27-at-14.09.42.png" data-mid="183433706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46d4a1ed59ba08de236878ee6a9faeeede93797bf9881937de598b43a09810b3/Screenshot-2023-06-27-at-14.09.42.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1381" width_o="1500" height_o="1381" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7948b53165cbae823d6e48090aa798d2c84bb08a79f8e85905c040bebcf69dd7/Arcade-Carpets-grid.jpg" data-mid="193227815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7948b53165cbae823d6e48090aa798d2c84bb08a79f8e85905c040bebcf69dd7/Arcade-Carpets-grid.jpg" /> https://robball.co.uk/Resort Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:38:49 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Resort ︎ Resort 100+ Seaside resorts documented, with a focus on seafront culture.&nbsp; Rob Ball has been making photographs at the coast for fifteen years and has documented over 100 resorts worldwide. His work examines the layers of the commercial coastline and the changes that arise from seasonal and generational shifts. Focusing on how fractured communities and infrastructure undergo cyclical repair and renewal, Ball’s images demonstrate that, despite a lack of investment, the seaside resort endures.&nbsp; <img width="2000" height="1600" width_o="2000" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8529f7c9de9c5b82bdfe67e4424a46bb24b8db73bfec891c10d5797ccfbbda74/12_coney_prize.jpg" data-mid="169440436" border="0" alt="A Prize Every Time, Coney Island 2016" data-caption="A Prize Every Time, Coney Island 2016" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8529f7c9de9c5b82bdfe67e4424a46bb24b8db73bfec891c10d5797ccfbbda74/12_coney_prize.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="1500" width_o="1875" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62f2a07a95c1c76c860568027c115b30c1a7aaba4a0e94df6d2472aa97cf9bd3/Blackpool_goldenfront.jpg" data-mid="169419880" border="0" alt="Golden Mile, Blackpool 2018" data-caption="Golden Mile, Blackpool 2018" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62f2a07a95c1c76c860568027c115b30c1a7aaba4a0e94df6d2472aa97cf9bd3/Blackpool_goldenfront.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7810f26388d242669c70d910693b7022dda46687f998626ed9fd940bc25ac31/_ROB1832.jpg" data-mid="182146747" border="0" alt="Funland, Skegness 2023" data-caption="Funland, Skegness 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7810f26388d242669c70d910693b7022dda46687f998626ed9fd940bc25ac31/_ROB1832.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="1500" width_o="1875" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b77d192d4f4051bb7c39ccdf2633391a75cf67a58ad12dffc84f90ea760b537e/robBall-73.jpg" data-mid="234770901" border="0" alt="Lollipop Motel, Wildwood 2025" data-caption="Lollipop Motel, Wildwood 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b77d192d4f4051bb7c39ccdf2633391a75cf67a58ad12dffc84f90ea760b537e/robBall-73.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42df667fe09faeef83c1bdf9665da98052b902bed13000a29f975737daee28e2/RobBall_SV-186.jpg" data-mid="169420424" border="0" alt="Fantasy World, Cleethorpes 2020" data-caption="Fantasy World, Cleethorpes 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42df667fe09faeef83c1bdf9665da98052b902bed13000a29f975737daee28e2/RobBall_SV-186.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc202882cd601ea13b8701216054063f994cb563a0d555e6476dfbc8c5b434ba/Weston-Beach--Weston-super-Mare--2018.jpg" data-mid="169420605" border="0" alt="Funland, Weston super Mare 2018" data-caption="Funland, Weston super Mare 2018" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc202882cd601ea13b8701216054063f994cb563a0d555e6476dfbc8c5b434ba/Weston-Beach--Weston-super-Mare--2018.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f849ea3fb1968ab575f508500538155c63aba6381c559d981215fcd3a61797e/_ROB0794.jpg" data-mid="229653910" border="0" alt="Prize Bingo, Redcar 2023" data-caption="Prize Bingo, Redcar 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f849ea3fb1968ab575f508500538155c63aba6381c559d981215fcd3a61797e/_ROB0794.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2400" width_o="3300" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/847caa20511bc038d4a8f9a5c5ac3921b6e6ab488762afdae126877e8219d8df/rob-ball_nathans.jpg" data-mid="169420529" border="0" data-scale="90" alt="Nathan's (night), Coney Island 2016" data-caption="Nathan's (night), Coney Island 2016" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/847caa20511bc038d4a8f9a5c5ac3921b6e6ab488762afdae126877e8219d8df/rob-ball_nathans.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf0279855252d9a6a27318122dd049a56cbe4c4c1c167e83a2702e3c40774d32/jw1-copy.jpg" data-mid="169420572" border="0" alt="Wonderland, Jaywick Sands 2019" data-caption="Wonderland, Jaywick Sands 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf0279855252d9a6a27318122dd049a56cbe4c4c1c167e83a2702e3c40774d32/jw1-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1196" height="1500" width_o="1196" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85fc9bde31a3f31ecf2e52cf185cd7f66e80dad75e6b9e4614bb7842db8270fe/robballARC-3.jpg" data-mid="178240848" border="0" alt="Silcocks Fun Palace, Blackpool 2018" data-caption="Silcocks Fun Palace, Blackpool 2018" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85fc9bde31a3f31ecf2e52cf185cd7f66e80dad75e6b9e4614bb7842db8270fe/robballARC-3.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="960" width_o="1200" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b82178fa7e9704108d2aa3c3ed91d8fe3a890ff213617105178b6d7695704b5d/2-13.25.19.jpg" data-mid="169420568" border="0" alt="Oxford Bingo, Whitstable 2010" data-caption="Oxford Bingo, Whitstable 2010" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b82178fa7e9704108d2aa3c3ed91d8fe3a890ff213617105178b6d7695704b5d/2-13.25.19.jpg" /> <img width="1487" height="1189" width_o="1487" height_o="1189" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d199e68c323c25205d0ebf84e6cb7206f206f18fe823079043328a2c8d1ed0bc/_ROB5951.jpg" data-mid="235627353" border="0" alt="Viking Bay, Broadstairs 2025" data-caption="Viking Bay, Broadstairs 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d199e68c323c25205d0ebf84e6cb7206f206f18fe823079043328a2c8d1ed0bc/_ROB5951.jpg" /> <img width="1875" height="1500" width_o="1875" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d064230735a37e1c7dc394993990830f332a5ebb4de4ebf6a1eb5388b3edfa61/museum54-Edit.jpg" data-mid="169441114" border="0" alt="Coney Island Museum, 2016" data-caption="Coney Island Museum, 2016" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d064230735a37e1c7dc394993990830f332a5ebb4de4ebf6a1eb5388b3edfa61/museum54-Edit.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/024954c77272b8624bf96ffbd8cfb53e00b0a9ec28318ab781340251ab7c3787/Rob_Ball_Cliftonville_Margate-2.jpg" data-mid="177787255" border="0" alt="Cliftonville Lido, Margate 2020" data-caption="Cliftonville Lido, Margate 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/024954c77272b8624bf96ffbd8cfb53e00b0a9ec28318ab781340251ab7c3787/Rob_Ball_Cliftonville_Margate-2.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32462bfe269d6ff91bde61dea89b044eab6b267905f2a4db41094f3d074ace4e/rball-38.jpg" data-mid="229653885" border="0" alt="Boating Pool, Ramsgate 2009" data-caption="Boating Pool, Ramsgate 2009" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32462bfe269d6ff91bde61dea89b044eab6b267905f2a4db41094f3d074ace4e/rball-38.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/deffd72bd00fe21c5b96958dcc2409906301350a3225c279c27b7ae57a2c7607/SouthendMC-edited.jpg" data-mid="235306645" border="0" alt="Monte Carlo, Southend 2023" data-caption="Monte Carlo, Southend 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/deffd72bd00fe21c5b96958dcc2409906301350a3225c279c27b7ae57a2c7607/SouthendMC-edited.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffbae30ca6baddc4d78ac73bf7bc7af2ee5461b16bf402c0b6a556db18508afe/atlanticcity1.jpg" data-mid="229108814" border="0" alt="Resorts, Atlantic City 2009" data-caption="Resorts, Atlantic City 2009" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffbae30ca6baddc4d78ac73bf7bc7af2ee5461b16bf402c0b6a556db18508afe/atlanticcity1.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e280fa8d8bb890c0e4b1844f7a910020057fc55a2a08efe486fe04cd880a8f1/Herne-Bay-Pier--Herne-Bay--2011.jpg" data-mid="169420934" border="0" alt="Pier Pavilion, Herne Bay, 2011" data-caption="Pier Pavilion, Herne Bay, 2011" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e280fa8d8bb890c0e4b1844f7a910020057fc55a2a08efe486fe04cd880a8f1/Herne-Bay-Pier--Herne-Bay--2011.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0cf573351c7e9d904a959c76ec4fbf2842949f13922130bde86a05f21beac8b/_ROB5638.jpg" data-mid="235306362" border="0" alt="Pepsi, Ocean City 2025" data-caption="Pepsi, Ocean City 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0cf573351c7e9d904a959c76ec4fbf2842949f13922130bde86a05f21beac8b/_ROB5638.jpg" /> https://robball.co.uk/Tintypes Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:08:38 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Tintypes ︎ Tintypes Contact mail@robball.co.uk to discuss a commission.10x8” and 12x10”Unique Tintypes, made at a variety of portrait studios, commissions and book projects. This work has been exhibited internationally including at The Photographers’ Gallery, Turner Contemporary and Metro Pictures in New York.&nbsp; <img width="480" height="600" width_o="480" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9fc2663ae5c5bd0a8f49ee9a50c081c97c0320140a628fab578801c88c0a8ab/joss.jpg" data-mid="169424116" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/480/i/d9fc2663ae5c5bd0a8f49ee9a50c081c97c0320140a628fab578801c88c0a8ab/joss.jpg" /> <img width="1814" height="1500" width_o="1814" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/401984e93c8366ae5b685937b15bed4753f71120b33e23c035d337fd8df1a588/boardwalk-x.jpg" data-mid="238370172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/401984e93c8366ae5b685937b15bed4753f71120b33e23c035d337fd8df1a588/boardwalk-x.jpg" /> <img width="1424" height="1807" width_o="1424" height_o="1807" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b17d39f15f61d8f65d78e837bd3b44143fdb88ac798073a19b45ea2b093da8dd/matt_strange034.jpg" data-mid="169433944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b17d39f15f61d8f65d78e837bd3b44143fdb88ac798073a19b45ea2b093da8dd/matt_strange034.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1276" width_o="1000" height_o="1276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e669234716b516dcf530373e861c3db28896de91faff759c05861ac7c58e7dd/eva_vermandel1012.jpg" data-mid="169433902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e669234716b516dcf530373e861c3db28896de91faff759c05861ac7c58e7dd/eva_vermandel1012.jpg" /> <img width="479" height="600" width_o="479" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/557ed3f0732e47aa397de698a9bd3c76187a3ea91e7ad347fbcb56f59469f1a2/obsolete_studios_7.jpg" data-mid="169424112" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2def1409d44b02864f14f049e3a6fed1b56aec6b2f9781ba860fa32639fd4ef9/_DSF0938-Edit-14.08.21.jpg" data-mid="169433931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2def1409d44b02864f14f049e3a6fed1b56aec6b2f9781ba860fa32639fd4ef9/_DSF0938-Edit-14.08.21.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1000" width_o="800" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6591c5c2f280889ebc2db7168e3a27ff07f9739b090767d8f8c5caf21603d2bd/alan_meades.jpg" data-mid="169434084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/6591c5c2f280889ebc2db7168e3a27ff07f9739b090767d8f8c5caf21603d2bd/alan_meades.jpg" /> <img width="480" height="600" width_o="480" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/027b89a9a8b00a5ccb9cc07d1315dae9eb541f2710a0160415cbdb77b15a0cc5/Laura_by_rob_ball.jpg" data-mid="169424144" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/480/i/027b89a9a8b00a5ccb9cc07d1315dae9eb541f2710a0160415cbdb77b15a0cc5/Laura_by_rob_ball.jpg" /> <img width="350" height="434" width_o="350" height_o="434" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ce92baf368bec13f7ef6c4f69600da66653a9aae710db768d84507e609bd015/doug_tin067.jpg" data-mid="169424138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/350/i/9ce92baf368bec13f7ef6c4f69600da66653a9aae710db768d84507e609bd015/doug_tin067.jpg" /> <img width="1197" height="1500" width_o="1197" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4de1886ac8a039adec80fa9875d011f1317a80d2988bae1c72bd3bc742b9ac61/rb_lauren006.jpg" data-mid="169432429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4de1886ac8a039adec80fa9875d011f1317a80d2988bae1c72bd3bc742b9ac61/rb_lauren006.jpg" /> https://robball.co.uk/Webcams Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:17:04 +0000 Rob Ball https://robball.co.uk/Webcams ︎ Coastal Webcams 7x5” Salted Paper Prints.Coastal Webcams captured during the Covid lockdown, reproduced as unique salt prints using water from the North Sea collected whilst on prescribed daily exercise, 2020-21. <img width="1000" height="714" width_o="1000" height_o="714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f65b3454be08ad3f2a95b6fb82fbf2b7c728f5e522d1293c9a4ae387904ad5f0/Ban-Ta.jpg" data-mid="169425111" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f65b3454be08ad3f2a95b6fb82fbf2b7c728f5e522d1293c9a4ae387904ad5f0/Ban-Ta.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1071" width_o="1500" height_o="1071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9edffdb9fe6244e2c93f5abb15fff1e433d721f4dd8267d58075568e48195518/cocos072.jpg" data-mid="169425184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9edffdb9fe6244e2c93f5abb15fff1e433d721f4dd8267d58075568e48195518/cocos072.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1071" width_o="1500" height_o="1071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f567487b3127d37ad0767d1b3c507d3133db9c87fd86e81883e2cf099447f353/cabarete073.jpg" data-mid="169425134" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f567487b3127d37ad0767d1b3c507d3133db9c87fd86e81883e2cf099447f353/cabarete073.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="715" width_o="1000" height_o="715" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3635f1f70ddbdb5c0fddc3e300f8fe4970814214a6efa24794cccb0a7bf6b84/tuscany068.jpg" data-mid="169425113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3635f1f70ddbdb5c0fddc3e300f8fe4970814214a6efa24794cccb0a7bf6b84/tuscany068.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="714" width_o="1000" height_o="714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13ccdb8437427be143133face8c9a0f34989ea7ba0eac7053c41dca8bd140fc6/naplesFL066.jpg" data-mid="169425132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13ccdb8437427be143133face8c9a0f34989ea7ba0eac7053c41dca8bd140fc6/naplesFL066.jpg" /> <img 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