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26 Photos From My ‘Invisible Jumpers’ Series That Took 5 Years And Thousands Of Hours Of Knitting
I spent 5 years creating these images with custom clothes knitted by an amazing knitter, Nina Dodd.
The project began when she showed me a sweater based on the seat covers of Brighton buses. This seemed too good an opportunity to miss, so we found an eye-catching model and photographed him on a bus.
I was so pleased with the result that I came up with more ideas for camouflaged jumpers, and the series developed.
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Tom And Dre, 2019
Miss Cris 5 years ago
This is the one that really make the impression of some filter on the pic. We can see those wonderful knitting paterns but the coulours match perfectly, which is extremely difficult because the blue of the sea changes every minute. The composition, the colours and the full pic are beautiful and smart.
Each of these pictures has taken me several days or weeks to research and plan, and Nina has spent weeks and sometimes months knitting for each one. I have generally begun with an idea: ‘Could I photograph someone blending into a cliff edge?’ Then I go looking for the perfect location.
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Mady And Monette Malroux, 2015
The locations have to be eye-catching but simple enough to be able to be knitted. They also have to be places that aren’t going to change too fast, as the knitting takes a few weeks. It would have been terrible to prepare a sweater and then not be able to shoot because the location has been demolished.
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Jimmy, 2014
Once I’ve found the location, I photograph someone standing where I would like the model to be in the final picture. I draw over this scouting photograph and annotate the picture with different colours and patterns so Nina can plan how to knit. Often there are 10 or 12 different shades of yarn in a single picture, and up to 24 balls of wool at any one time for the more complicated designs.
After 5 years and over a thousand hours of knitting, the project has now been published in book form by Hoxton Mini Press.
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Rumi And Scarlet, 2019
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Monsieur Chat, 2017
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Venus, 2015
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Calum, 2017
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Lo, Beachy Head, 2018
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Malik, 2016
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Chris, 2019
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Fimber Bravo, 2018
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Fruit Fraud, 2019
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Cherry Blossom
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Knitting Track
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Black Phoenix, 2019
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Nina, 2018
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Kate, 2019
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
Even if it was meant to blend in, on it's own it's a beautiful sweater. I would certainly wear it!
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Stilts
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Buddy And Taboushka, 2018
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This Side Up
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Fatboy Slim, 2018
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Knit Teapot
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Seth Globepainter, 2019
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Rock Pools
Koala King 5 years ago
Anyone else want to either make a raspberry sound or push him in the snow?
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Rock Pools
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