Colin MacLeod is better known as a teacher and maker of films than as a photographer; but he trained in photography in the 1960s and has continued to work intermittently with the medium. This has now become a full-time practice, and the web site represents an attempt to explore the way still and manipulated images become objectified by heightening the viewers curiousity about what they actually see. 

The work on show is a development of the theory that the viewer strikes up a conversation with the subject while putting aside the artist's a priori imprint.

Six pages, Test Beds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 

and an article on the 'About Me' page - 

Thoughts on Lens-media and Education

are on the site that also offers articles 

on the theory and practice of my work.

The first - 

Thoughts about Making and Reading the Image.

The Second -

The Third - 

The Fourth - 

The Centre of Meaning. 

The Fifth -

Making Things Strange

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