In my retrospective on 2012 I borrowed a template to prompt me to look back on the year. I don't usually analyse my year in quite such a structured and public way, preferring to do this continuously and more privately. However, this time it fit in fairly neatly with my annual "photography review" and served a useful exercise of self-reflection.
I still work pretty quickly, especially in post-processing, but I think I spend more time on each shot. Of course, film slows me down and the new large format camera will slow me to a near standstill.
It was a year of very hard work, mainly in my business. It was better than last year which lacked sufficient interesting job-work. 2011 was when I bet everything on my company, but it wouldn't be till the last quarter of 2012 that this decision began to feel like it was paying off.
What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Once in a Lifetime - Wolfsheim
Dead Stars - Covenant
Genesis - VNV Nation
Eclipse - Apoptygma Berzerk
This Corrosion - The Sisters of Mercy
Du Hast - Rammstein
The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
Deliverance - The Mission
It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys
Ship of Fools - Erasure
A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
Chrome (SITD remix) - VNV Nation
Desire - Dreams Divide
Deep Waters (Consumer Junk remix) - Grendel
Jump - Van Halen
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr.
Magic Dance (from Labyrinth) - David Bowie
Happy Birthday - The Birthday Massacre
