by Roderick Field | 06.27.10 | Uncategorized, Weblog, Weblog, adventures, headlong, news
The first six chapters of my debut novel are now online.
You can know a pivotal moment as soon as it has passed. A short, sharp snap in time. The crack of collapse. This is the millisecond when the waters break in the back of a London Taxi, or the road lets go of the tyres and the car starts to roll. Overturned. You know the sort of thing. Or maybe years pass before you spot the momentary before and after split, seemingly tiny now in the rear view mirror. It makes no difference; noticing, not noticing. It arrives as you quietly expect more of yesterday, when you knew what was what and how to be. Crack. Then it passes, things change. And your small, frail certainty careers in a breathtaking diversion. Time to find your mettle or time to run. Chance and choices, endings and beginnings. Life turning on a sixpence. It is bound to hurt. Ask Joe. More »
Tags: Abortion, amputation, awakening, camden, catastrophe, cerebral palsy, chase, disability, fear, guilt, hiding, hitman, humour, journey, loneliness, loss, lost, love, miscarriage, motorcycling, orphan, redemption, road
by Roderick Field | 06.21.10 | news
skye tale
I travelled the 640 miles to the Isle of Skye many times over 2 years – by motorbike, car and plane. It is another world at the far end of the mile long Skye Bridge. This selection of images tracks my fascination with the textures of the island and the endless open sky. More »
by Roderick Field | 03.26.10 | Weblog, news
merchant & mills, a new venture . . . come see us at the Hay Festival from May 28th 2010 More »
by Roderick Field | 03.20.10 | Weblog, news
When I see these dismembered animals, from Albania, Spain, Sicily and France, not the developing ‘uncivilized’ world, I am pleased. Not because they are dead but because the communities that kill and eat them are being honest about where meat comes from. It is an unsentimental industry with lambs and goats, cows and pigs slaughtered and butchered with little more consideration than apples being picked. Yet if we did not harvest them, there would be no sweet farm animals to prick our consciences.
I eat meat, including hearts and testicles, it is in the nature of the work and to refuse would be almost coy. From choice I go for recognisable, unprocessed meat. I can taste the difference in organic and humanely killed animals. They tend not to have suffered a terrified, tissue-hardening adreniline rush just before their ineviatble demise. I ask myself if I would kill to eat meat, and I hope I would. Burgers, sausages, pies and ready meals take the pressure off. Eating the ear of a pig makes you think, it is somehow more barbaric than a rib or chop.
These pictures, I consider quite beautiful in their own way. If they at least make you conscious, aware that meat does not grow in packets, washed and ready wrapped, then I am satisfied. More »
Tags: consumer, hare, lamb, meat, photography, photojournalism, pig, pork, trotters, vegetarian
by Roderick Field | 01.31.10 | Weblog, news
Food has become a national preoccupation, fed by the constant presence of Jamie, Gordon and other celebrity chefs on our screens. But for some of us, cooking is in danger of becoming a spectator sport as we sit back and watch rather than rolling up our sleeves to join in. Basic skills such as jointing meat, filleting fish and baking bread, which were once taken for granted, have gone by the wayside. I decided to enrol on three very different food courses in my quest to learn some fundamentals of food preparation. Not just cooking, but the whole process from choosing ingredients to preparing them. To understand meat I joined a course at The Ginger Pig in London’s Marylebone, a traditional butcher that specialises in free-range rare breeds with four stores in the capital and one in Yorkshire. For fish I headed to the Billingsgate Seafood Training School at the UK’s biggest inland fish market, and for bread making I went to learn more from the award-winning breadmakers Degustibus.
The Meat Class More »
Tags: billingsgate, bread ginger pig, cookery, degustibus, fish, meat
by Roderick Field | 12.21.09 | Weblog, news
Black + White Photography magazine publish this lovely interview in the 2009 Christmas issue. To view or download a PDF click the link: | The Parachutist | More »
Tags: black and white, La Rioja, monochrome, photography, photojournalism, wineries
