'by Severn'  .....  A Online PechaKucha

‘If England, her spirit lives anywhere it is by Severn, by hawthorns and grand willows …

Ivor Gurney

Join the train and enjoy a nostalgic journey once made by the author, as a small boy with a pocket camera.  Capture his vision then, as it is communicated now online,  as contemporary photography.

Robert is arriving. . .  not with a traditional panel but with a kinaesthetic series of  images  created especially for an occasion.

You are invited to book a ticket and join a self-directed railway journey along the banks of Severn. Timeless and evocative, for an age departed.

When you reach journey’s end and with a thought of returning , the ‘right-away’ is yours.  Simply scroll back freely and pass down the line, to where you first began. Making sure the window is tightly closed for the tunnel .

Each person’s journey will be different, a further attestation of contemporary photography with PechaKucha timing. The journey as presented, is of course  re-imagined;  a small boy aboard a steam train for the first time, with a camera and a precious roll of film.

Robert is undeniably  that small boy from 60 years ago, looking to re-capture the feelings he once held ,  ‘making simple pictures’  and entering a new paradigm. Ready to enjoy  ‘a new photographic adventure’ along a railway line in Worcestershire by the River Severn. Sometimes stopping at a signal or a station, it is was digital camera’s shutter  Regardless of where the photographer was, in that moment.

Help re-kindle what a small boy saw from a vintage railway carriage, in those days now long gone