Paul Angel
Alphabet Coast
A
few years back Paul started photographing letters and numbers with the
idea of putting them together into word-based images. As a photographer
everything he does also has a set of rules and boundaries. This particular
set of photographs is all taken within short reach of the sea, initially
all in Swanage and along the Purbeck coast and more recently moving out
along the Jurassic Coast in the south of England. 
The concept for the images is that they all use letters, symbols and textures
found in coastal areas. Always armed with a camera Paul spends most of
his time while out and about stopping to photograph weathered and battered
letters on all kinds of surfaces.
Paul can often be found scouring coastal cottages, rural retreats and
splendid signposts for interesting textures, fonts and colours ready to
be recycled into the words and pictures that make up this Alphabet Coast
collection - if you're ever in Swanage, see if you can spot where some
of them came from!
These letters make a great christening or wedding present or simply to
tell someone that you love them!
You can buy a number of the Alphabet Coast images from the gallery's webshop
Love | Landscape series
In
Paul's own words "all the photographs are of expressions of love,
carved in wood, written in indelible ink or sprayed with car paint, alongside
their context, photographed as landscape. The authors of those expressions
are teenagers in love, on the verge of adulthood and disappointment. Having
said that, I am an adult in love. Some days, even after years of loving
one woman, I feel like a teenager, weak and vulnerable".
Read more about Love | Landscape on Paul's blog.