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You go on a holiday and you take pictures.

When I met David Franklin one of the first things he did was to
show me his photoalbum. It was not a regular photo album where you can just
slide in the pictures. He puts more effort into it and crops away the parts
he doesn’t like. I felt a sudden urge to ask if I could have his leftovers.

They intrigue me; why did he cut this particular bit away?
Of the photo off cuts I have produced a series of 84 pieces.
I have mounted them on painted wood of the size of a standard size
photograph to emphasize the empty bit that we will nevers see,
the actual motif.

These off-cuts also represents the passing of time,
David Franklin is now the proud owner of a digital camera and is
learning how to crop his pictures on the computer.

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