Doran's work deals with the autobiographical as well as the natural world, through his studies of flora and the allotment. His work Common Grounds focuses on a specific goegraphical space which is rooted in the contextual background of the working class North East, I felt that this has another level of significance for myself, having been born and raised in the same region. His work Weeds links more closely to my work in its aesthetic approach, photographing detailed close-ups of flowers against a dark background. There is a transcience to these photographs which I feel resonates within my own work on more than the visual level, the flowers being captured at a decisive moment, at the peak of their beauty, before they whither. (below)
In Common Grounds, Doran "assmebles ephemera" and "aids to memory" which are "echoes of significant locations". He often juxtaposes his images which are taken using a flatbed scanner placed directly onto the ground next to the scans of his collected "ephemera", this creates connections between the scraps of items found in the area with the "'virtual' cast of the ground at (our) feet". (below)
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