Jan Gray

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     a photographer..........wandering the south downs, often into abstraction

     

     

    Pett Level

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    A weird beach in East Sussex that featured in the iconic David Bowie video for 'Ashes to Ashes'.

     

    I visited Pett Level before I knew about the connection to David Bowie. The tide was out and it was a freezing cold day, my birthday, in March a few years ago. The beach was sprawling, vast and deserted with any echoes of summer long driven away by the sleet and wind of late winter.  I was intrigued and immediately drawn to the place. I later found out about the connection to Bowie in a chance conversation with a friend on Instagram and so his music was very much in my mind when I returned two years later, to make this series.

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    Time and again I tell myself

    I'll stay clean tonight

    But the little green wheels are following me
    Oh no, not again
    I'm stuck with a valuable friend
    "I'm happy, hope you're happy too"

    One flash of light but no smoking pistol

     

    [David Bowie, 'Ashes to Ashes', 1980]

     

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    Pett Level 001
    Pett Level 002
    Pett Level 003
    Pett Level 004
    Pett Level 005
    Pett Level 006
    Pett Level 007
    Pett Level 008
    Pett Level 009
    Pett Level 010
    Pett Level 011
    Pett Level 012
    Pett Level 013
    Pett Level 014
    Pett Level 015
    Pett Level 016
    Pett Level 017
    Pett Level 018
    Pett Level 019
    Pett Level 020
    Pett Level 021
    Pett Level 022

     

     

    Pett Level

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    ​

    A weird beach in East Sussex that featured in the iconic David Bowie video for 'Ashes to Ashes'.

     

    I visited Pett Level before I knew about the connection to David Bowie. The tide was out and it was a freezing cold day, my birthday, in March a few years ago. The beach was sprawling, vast and deserted with any echoes of summer long driven away by the sleet and wind of late winter.  I was intrigued and immediately drawn to the place. I later found out about the connection to Bowie in a chance conversation with a friend on Instagram and so his music was very much in my mind when I returned two years later, to make this series.

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    ______________________________________________________

    ​

    Time and again I tell myself

    I'll stay clean tonight

    But the little green wheels are following me
    Oh no, not again
    I'm stuck with a valuable friend
    "I'm happy, hope you're happy too"

    One flash of light but no smoking pistol

     

    [David Bowie, 'Ashes to Ashes', 1980]

     

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    Pett Level 001
    Pett Level 002
    Pett Level 003
    Pett Level 004
    Pett Level 005
    Pett Level 006
    Pett Level 007
    Pett Level 008
    Pett Level 009
    Pett Level 010
    Pett Level 011
    Pett Level 012
    Pett Level 013
    Pett Level 014
    Pett Level 015
    Pett Level 016
    Pett Level 017
    Pett Level 018
    Pett Level 019
    Pett Level 020
    Pett Level 021
    Pett Level 022

     

     

    Pett Level

    ​

    _________________________________________________________________________

    ​

    A weird beach in East Sussex that featured in the iconic David Bowie video for 'Ashes to Ashes'.

     

    I visited Pett Level before I knew about the connection to David Bowie. The tide was out and it was a freezing cold day, my birthday, in March a few years ago. The beach was sprawling, vast and deserted with any echoes of summer long driven away by the sleet and wind of late winter.  I was intrigued and immediately drawn to the place. I later found out about the connection to Bowie in a chance conversation with a friend on Instagram and so his music was very much in my mind when I returned two years later, to make this series.

    ​

    ______________________________________________________

    ​

    Time and again I tell myself

    I'll stay clean tonight

    But the little green wheels are following me
    Oh no, not again
    I'm stuck with a valuable friend
    "I'm happy, hope you're happy too"

    One flash of light but no smoking pistol

     

    [David Bowie, 'Ashes to Ashes', 1980]

     

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