"The beauty of nocturnal air raids," Robin Cracknell

Robin Cracknell makes images that are at once highly personal, and yet still deeply accessible. Combining fragments, gestures, and poignant ambiguities of his own pictures with degraded film stock ("usually discoloured strips, often caked in old splicing cement, tape, sometimes with script etc scratched into them")- his works look as though they were hastily retrieved from some significant disaster. I'm exhausted by instagram and similar 'app's' capacity to make a generally dull image "cool." Efforts like Robin's, while mediated yes, are far less cynical and much more genuinely warm.T.W. 7.1.12 'the beauty of nocturnal air raids' on Flickr