2022
198 Pages
21x28cm
The cheapest pint of lager was drunk at every pub in the historic City of London. A picture was then taken of its toilet. Pub name, price of pint, name of server, date and time transcribed from original receipts. Displayed in ascending pint price order.
Two versions of this book were produced, Version A (10 copies) contained scans of original receipts while Version B (30 copies, displayed here) transcribed information from said receipts.
2023
220 Pages
21.5x27cm
This publication collects storefront advertising from 100 London convenience stores. Conducted in April and May of 2023, several of these adverts have been removed or replaced since the time they were photographed. Some of these businesses no longer exist.
2023
20 Prints
10x12”
An inquiry into how we chew, resulting in fleshy sculptural lumps. Participants chewed four pieces of Extra Spearmint Sugar-free Gum, simultaneously, for 30 seconds. Prints display “front” and “rear” of each sample.
2023
200 Pages
27x21.5cm
A survey of posters that commemorate late residents of Noto, Sicily. These posters, which are stuck to street walls and public noticeboards, advertise a commemorative service at either a church or family home. Occasionally two services occur, one for family and another for the public. Four funeral parlours design these memorial announcements: Abeti (translated as “Fir Trees”), Barocco (“Baroque”), Paradiso (“Paradise”) and Scarnato (“Stripped”) - unattributied posters are presumably made independently.
2021
12 Pages
24x36cm
Initially I was foolish enough to approach these liminal events and apparitions head on which only caused them to recoil. They, by nature, can only be seen in our peripheral vision haunting our world at its edge - never tangible enough to believe but too consistently present to ignore.
2023
Book TBC
Initially expecting to encounter the stereotype of a city business man, our researcher found the tie wearing populous to be quite amicable (stating that around one third of those approached allowed their neck-piece to be photographed) and those who were not quite as friendly just wanted to get out of the cold and onto their train home. Readers will be pleased to hear that the rod-up-his-ass banker has not completely disappeared however, one of these gentlemen cut short our researcher’s advance of “Excuse me, would you mind if I
took a photograph of your tie?” with a hand in his face and the age old Londoner’s statement, “Got no change.”
2023
50 Pages
31.5x21cm
An inquery into the design of cheap, spring-loaded rodent traps. Each trap displayed primed (left hand page) and unprimed (right hand page) at true to life size. Ordered in acending price order, many of these traps were sold in multipacks therefore the price listed is the price per trap. Company names also listed.
2025
21x14.8mm
The eight bars that appear in this comparative inquiry come from two four-bar multipacks purchased in the same transaction from a branch of Sainsbury’s Local. Each individual wrapper features the same ‘unique’ pieces of information, seemingly inscribed after printing, which read as follows:
25/01/26 505 A2
SL004 #1 20:54
For the sake of display all bars have been rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise but they retain their packed orientation with “SNICKERS” reading from page bottom to top. This reveals that the caramel is applied from right to left (page top to bottom in this instance) with bars presumably moving in the opposite direction, left to right, along a conveyer-belt until they are packed. The driving question behind this survey can once and for all be put to bed and our, at times overly, interested readers can finally rest their minds on this matter at least: the caramel veins applied to Snickers bars are not uniform.
The primary photographic surveyor has grown particularly attached to the near blank bar and now keeps it, frozen, as a memento of this long awaited investigation. We would like to quash any suggestions of euphemism on our part at this early stage, having only discovered hours before printing the unsubstantiated claims that the bar’s form might resemble anything other than a bar of chocolate.
2023
Five-thousand 1p coins withdrawn from banks in London, displayed heads up in date order from 1971 - 2020. All coins collected and photographed in 2023. Yearly mintage figures included.
Although 22,994,445,256 pennies were minted between 1971 - 2023, the Royal Mint states, “As at 29th Feb 2024, it’s estimated that 9.846 billion 1p pieces are in circulation.” According to The Treasury’s Cash and digital payments in the new economy: call for evidence document from March of 2018, “six in ten 1p and 2p coins are used in a transaction once before they leave the cash cycle.”
In the years 1972, 2018 & 2019 coins were solely produced for annual proof sets, a set containing one coin from each denomination in a specific year, with none minted for general circulation.
In 1971 the United Kingdom replaced pounds, shillings & pence with a decimal system where 100 pennies make up one pound. As the penny already existed, its new status was reflected in its initial titling: “New Penny”.
Although 22,994,445,256 pennies were minted between 1971 - 2023, the Royal Mint states, “As at 29th Feb 2024, it’s estimated that 9.846 billion 1p pieces are in circulation.” According to The Treasury’s Cash and digital payments in the new economy: call for evidence document from March of 2018, “six in ten 1p and 2p coins are used in a transaction once before they leave the cash cycle.”
In the years 1972, 2018 & 2019 coins were solely produced for annual proof sets, a set containing one coin from each denomination in a specific year, with none minted for general circulation.
In 1971 the United Kingdom replaced pounds, shillings & pence with a decimal system where 100 pennies make up one pound. As the penny already existed, its new status was reflected in its initial titling: “New Penny”.
2017 - 2022
Black and white photographs on Ilford HP5. Various locations, dates between 2017 and 2022.
David Goodkin / Nik Doog (Profile)
davidgoodkin@googlemail.com
@nikd00g
Surveys, studies and general tomfoolery. London based documentary and alternative documentary projects. Initial photographic projects took the form of street photography (capturing life as it is on the street), now focusing on simple projects which compare (often mundane) objects as a means to document contemporary culture and behaviour.
Photography MA
London College of Communication
2021 - 2022
Photography BA
Middlesex University
2020 - 2021
Photography BA
Edinburgh Napier University
2018 - 2020
Postgraduate Showcase
London College of Communication
November 2022