Comments on: Ashworth Rises from the Ashes

By: kk+

kk+ — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:35:28 +0000

thx for turning me onto this photographer! :)

By: Traumata

Traumata — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:06:51 +0000

Thanks for this piece, I’ve been in love with that Lucifire portrait (and the rest of that M+V series] for the longest time and never knew who shot it.

By: Io

Io — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:59:31 +0000

While I do love the spectacular looking latter images, I am a little more partial to the elegant (and erotic) starkness of the first images — As a model w/an artist’s inclinations, those are the type of images I’d love to be part of.

By: peter ashworth

peter ashworth — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:09:13 +0000

thank you very much for the comments nadya.

it is always extremely interesting, and informative, for me to see how others ‘see’ my images.

i have never presumed to know what photo will be liked more or less.
one thing i would like to add to this conversation is that the ‘early’ work you refer to was actually only shot about 6 or 7 years ago, and i actually started in 1980 with images that i will be slowly adding (as i find them, and as i can scan and recolour the ones that need it – film does not last as long as i had hoped before going off in both contrast AND colour ) to the archive sections of my website.

i have gone thro a number of phases, partially depending on my lighting, partially on how complex i wished to make an image (in effect hiding it within itself) and partially upon WHO is was working with at the time
murray and vern were always brillantly provocative and i did many great pics with them.

re the website, you are right, it is purposely very simple, no flash, not even any thumbnails, just long pages that sometimes go into sets of images, sometimes not

it is the FIRST website i have been able to update myself, and so i will be changing it regularly, adding images to the archives, and most importantly making them BIG (i am fed up with websites that have tiny images which i cannot see properly, what’s the point???)

anyway, thanks for the comments i appreciate them

By: Sterlingspider

Sterlingspider — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:02:11 +0000

I’m not actually looking for this comment to be unmoderated, just wanted to let you know that the comments function on the next post (Enjoying “stolen images”) seems to be disabled, and someone appears to have hacked the RSSd post on LJ and added a whole slew of porn links to it.

Just thought someone might like to know and I couldn’t find a “contact us” address to do it any other way.

By: Destroyx

Destroyx — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:16:26 +0000

I really like his work!

I can see what you mean about the contrast between his stark earlier work and his newer work, which doesn’t seem to have that visceral edge which make them incredibly compelling.

Thanks for writing such interesting posts, it’s cool to see you are still critical and can write really well about these things. It’s very thought provoking.

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:09:38 +0000

Wow, those hairstyles remind me of intertwined horsetails! But yet – I really do love the stripped down minimal look of Ashworth’s early stuff and would love to see more of it alongside the complex new work.