At the Thing on Saturday Mark Stafford was there. He reached in his bag and announced he had a new toy. Some of you may remember the Mangifying Glass Photographs, a project he started a couple of years back taking photos of people, mainly UK comics types, screaming into a magnifying glass held a few inches away from their faces. If you don’t remember it go check it out before continuing.
Mark produced what I believe is called a Magnifying Sheet, commonly used by the hard of seeing to read books, about A4 in size. I grinned. He grinned. I got out my camera. The first results of this glorious second part to the project follow…
The first one. This is Mark.
Same as before, this is me.
We then tried bending the sheet and holding it closer to the face.
I was concerned that the flash would ruin the effect but it actually adds something.
Later in the pub Jeremy Dennis sat down and I went “OH!” and showed her what we’d been doing. She was well up for it.
Gary Northfield said he looked like he did in his wedding photos.
Mark then trundled off with his own camera to take many many more….
That last one is Alexi Sayle with specs.
I have three eyes so I must scream!
Nice to see you, looking well.