OFF SEASON

Photobook Pre-orders

I recieved my first 7 copies from the local printers Booths, here in Penryn just last week and they have all sold straight away.

I have to keep one aside for my final project hand in but i am already putting a pre order list together for the next run.

I would like to thank everyone for their support, photobooks are not cheap and i really appreciate each and every person that spends their hard earned money on anything i create.

Please either pm me for details, go onto my Etsy store or just hit the “shop” part of this website to join the pre orders for the second run.

Off-Season Photo Etsy

https://adrianbagley.substack.com/p/off-season-f7f

Time for change.

When you dedicate months of you time to a project, it becomes part of your being, an obsession. It’s a constant roller coaster of emotion, with so many highs and lows. I still have a deep urge to be out all the time looking for moments, birds , tying to bring my ideas to life. But the world has already changed. The mornings are lighter, the days are warmer and there are visitors again in places that only a few weeks ago seemed abandoned.

So much of my life the last few months has been running out of the door at a moments notice when the light has been perfect. Organising my week and my amazing small people around giving me the time to walk about at dawn with no distractions and having to juggle everything so i can be there as the sun sets to follow starlings as they roost. I am finding it difficult to switch off. Even though i have plenty of tasks to keep me ocupied before my hand in i still feel the need to keep shooting. If i see a bird or a beautiful scene in nature i feel the need to add it to my body of work, but the reality is i have finished, for now, and need to let it go. I am confident this series will be a springboard for new projects however it is recieved and i know in my heart i put more of myself into these images than anything else i have ever done. OFF-SEASON

https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianbagley/p/time-for-change-off-season?r=5f14vd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

OFF-SEASON Update:

Meeting with an old friend to discuss artwork for OFF-SEASON and listen to his thoughts on presentation for my final show. John is one of the most creative people i know and i feel very blessed to be able to ocassionally ask his advice.

https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianbagley/p/exciting-times?r=5f14vd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Guy Leverton

The OG Legend of shred himself has a you tube channel and its starting to blow up!!!

Even more rad is that Guy is using my pictures for his vids.

Go give him some love and experience true stoke that can never be extinguished!

https://youtube.com/@guyleverton?feature=shared

The bottom three pics are mine.

OFF - SEASON

I cant contain my excitement any longer! I have been working on this project for a very long time now and i have never felt prouder or more happy with my work than i do at the moment. I am finally taking the kind of photographs i have been aspiring to take my whole life.

This project OFF-SEASON means so much to me it is almost difficult to put into words. Its like it is part of my being and it is somthing i just needed to do.

I have been exploring the symbolic role of birds in and around my home town of Newquay Cornwall. When i started this body of work i was focusing on life lived by the ocean during our harsh winter months and i had no idea where it would lead me. 

The birds were what captivated me more than anything. The birds that remain over winter, seeming to embody a complex range of human emotions. Most of the time no one seems to even notice them in the background of their lives.

Through their behaviour, and my photography, i stared to see an impressionistic narrative of loss, resilience, and the passing of time, it was as though they were a reflection of the human experience, always in motion, always searching for connection with others, but often alone.

I admired their graceful yet transient nature and saw moments of longing, retreat, and quiet turmoil, mirroring our own struggles in life.  

Yes it may be grey, wet and moody but this is the genuine Cornwall, one i love and have embraced for 25 years. The emptiness, fragmentation and authentic scenes that surround me everyday may to some look one sided but this is real life here. Just because it does not look beautiful does not mean that the beauty is not there.

I have documented a slice of modern-day Cornwall with the parallels of avian life, showing the perseverance and vulnerability of all things.

I hope you enjoy.

https://adrianbagley.substack.com/p/6523cb6d-e9b6-4ee6-9374-db2394af6aad?postPreview=paid&updated=2025-03-31T08%3A39%3A52.731Z&audience=everyone&free_preview=false&freemail=true