Mark Power, one of my favorite photographers, has been collaborating with poet Daniel Cockrill on a piece called “Destroying The Laboratory For The Sake of the Experiment”:
For the past few years, the two friends have taken short breaks together around England in the manner of an elderly married couple from the 1950s, but with the express purpose of making a personal project about their mother country, a place which charms them and repels them by turns. They stay in cheap hotels, talk each other through the depressions borne of Skegness in winter (or summer), and quietly go about their respective practices. Some 600 images and thousands of words later, it’s starting to look like a body of work. Indeed, Destroying The Laboratory For The Sake of the Experiment will take the form of an exhibition at the Atlas Gallery in June, and it promises to be full of the unexpected: films, installations, and live poetry performances.
Read more, see the photos and hear the poetry HERE at Foto8 .
See additional photos and hear more poetry at Mark’s website HERE.