1816 was the year without a summer. Crops failed and mass famine followed. The dismal weather inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Byron's poem Darkness. In 1816 Nicéphore Niépce first attempted to harness the sun, to make photographic pictures. By the mid twentieth century, 35mm roll film became the means to record summer holidays – thanks to Kodak. Now the long hot summer of 35mm photography is ended. Year Without A Summer is made from the ends (actually the beginnings) of roll-films I have shot over many years. They combine lost moments, broken memories of summers long past with a kind of abstract painting that was supposed to be a 'painting degree zero' - painting reduced to its pure essence. These ends of film strip take film-based colour photography back to its simplest form - to the biting, burning action of light on celluloid.

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