Between the Performance.

The 37th frame: the fabled "one that got away". That was the age-old adage before 35mm film shooters moved into digital capture. With digital, those excuses are long gone, however, it has opened up a new line of approach and one which personally resonates. Back in the last century I learnt to send and receive Morse Code. To be really good, you didn't listen to the dots and dashes, you listened to the gaps in-between, not the . nor the - but the What does the 37th frame, which is what I have termed this silent space, that all illusive, defining image taken in the unguarded moment tell us about the group photograph, the dynamics involved, the people in the portrait, when their guard is down? Appleby Horse Fair: four days+ , the annual meeting of the families from the UK Romany, Traveller, Gypsy community, that surely throws up some interesting characters and the perfect occasion to test out my hypothesis.