Kieran Turner's photos

Our illustrious Senior Vice-President. Many's the plot and plan we hatched in that office ;)

Rock!

Ron in his rôle as President of the Aberdeen University Students' Representative Council for 1995/96. He (and I hope, we ) really shook things up whenever we saw the need, and the refreshing thing about Aberdeen is, overall, that seemed to be welcome .

Train-spotters will no doubt be thrilled at the pre-1990s seat cover. ;-p

The "Rail" — you had to wear shades because there's no windscreen. If you wanted to go above 50mph you had to wear a bike helmet! (And it weighed next to nothing, so it got there very very quickly!) My friend Mike owned this, but at the time of this photo I was the only person who could actually get insured for it, so I drove him around a bit! The best thing was driving up the several flights of steps to park outside the 3A20 computer lab (COGS) at Sussex University. The double-takes from people looking out of their windows were priceless! Go on, view it large, see my David Hasselhoff impression!

I've always loved this one. Taken for us by Sybilla, a German exchange student who was then with our friend Joe Karthauser. Outside 12 D'Aubigny Road, where lots of us lived over the years! The wing mirror peeking in is lovely Josie, my Morris 1800 with the acres of red leather. I used to always pick up hitchers on the way to Sussex University campus, or my job at the Juggs Inn (a 14th century pub!). One of them once asked me, on looking at the leather, wood, and chrome, "Are you a drug dealer!?"

In the kitchen at the house so many of us lived in over the years. It was in this room that (ridiculous and sublime list coming up) : + I discovered the joy of reading the Saturday papers at the table with my flatmates + We heard the first ever broadcast of Virgin Radio + I had many battles about the clear superiority of peanut butter over marmite + I told Mike something he dealt with very very well + Ruth locked me and Rob out, in very few clothes, in the hailstorm + Joe first described to me his theory of a new mathematics + Ruth inspired me to think about "the third world" seriously and do something Blimey. Student life.

Actually taken by our friend Rob, but I suspect I have the only copy of the photo and it's so damn good, it goes online. One of the Sussex Uni halls of residence; probably 1989.

Dave Pearce with Bruce Leigh posing on the Alice-in-Wonderland bench in the grounds of Drum Castle.

You won't see me approving of a shot of me in profile very often. It's a nose thing. But this one has a kind of weird cheekiness that I do quite like.

Me doing some sort of tree-elf impression, with Bruce Leigh in the old wood at Drum Castle.

At Alix's wedding. Somebody remind me of the date?

Always liked this shot. I had it scanned to a greyscale image for ages (which I probably ought to upload for comparison) but I've been scanning some old prints lately and rediscovered that it was actually a colour original. So here it is. I love the shapes of Sir Brian Spence's Sussex University campus, and here Hazel's hat fits rather nicely with the Meeting House behind her. But the real design classic is that lamp-post. Since I've added this to the Sussex Uni campus group, I'd better be helpful by saying we were standing at the top of the steps at the entrance to what was then COGS, with the MAPS stores behind us. I think they're called Pevensey now, or something new-fangled like that. (Boo.)

Bruce Leigh in the gardens of Drum Castle.

Ali, and my unintentionally anarchist picture frame in the background...

PC ("Pussy cat") makes her feelings known!

I really love Kodak Portra "natural colour" film. I took a snap of my friend Giles in the pub garden, (it's the adjacent shot in this photostream) then handed him the camera and got him to take this one of me with exactly the same settings. Pentax ME-Super, 50mm SMC f1.7 lens, Kodak Portra NC 160 (35mm).

Mister Jim Porter of Myrtle Beach and Brighton.