The name of the project is Can’t Remember! Each image is titled by their respective number.
Bain was educated at University Campus Suffolk (Ipswich) and has a BA (Hons) in Photography. In his final year he jointly won the Student of the Year Award.
His web site is
www.alb-images.com and e-mail address is
Photography
ALB Images
1st July - 22nd July
Ally Bain’s photographic project is based on an awful event that happened to him.
In July 1999, he was assaulted and the hard hitting punch forced his head to land heavily on the concrete pavement. He was taken to hospital and, whilst still in a coma, he underwent two brain operations with the first being to remove a haematoma (collection of blood). The second operation was to remove some dead brain cells, a partial lobotomy in his left frontal-lobe.
The coma lasted for several days and that was followed by several days of post-traumatic amnesia. Once fully awake, further tests were taken and this showed significant problems. The main areas were, and still are, language skills (reading, writing and speech), certain parts of memory and other cognitive problems.
Due to Bain’s experience of these problems, he chose to look into the realms of showing loss of memory by corrupting the photographic image. Fragmented and distorted, his work is an attempt to visualise the complex notion of memory and its loss.
The name of the project is Can’t Remember! Each image is titled by their respective number.
Bain was educated at University Campus Suffolk (Ipswich) and has a BA (Hons) in Photography. In his final year he jointly won the Student of the Year Award.
His web site is www.alb-images.com and e-mail address is [email protected].