It's a somewhat fragile arrangement: if someone books the space for a private party, say, or a television shoot, Lit Crawl can be left scrambling to find another spot.
So I designed chinks in the cabin's mortar that, when lit from behind, shot small beams — or maybe you'd call them shafts — of light through the walls and the dust motes, forming crosses through which he might walk during one of his pacing-for-inspiration scenes.
Even stranger is that many of us do just that.' Richardson first came to prominence in the mid-Nineties, shooting fashion editorials and ads that were starkly lit, brutally cropped and shot on snapshot cameras with little or no lighting.
Among the offbeat gems on Sunday are household names Alexei Sayle and Nigel Planer (reviving Neil from The Young Ones), as well as more bizarre acts such as Irish surrealist Kevin McAleer and Chris Lynam, a man best-known for shooting a lit firework from his arse.
We fled, she mid-cleanse in the dentist's chair, me leaving dishes in the sink with a kind friend inveigled to wash up - only to find the sky too black even for lit close-ups, and shooting cancelled for the day.
"I hate to pick on The Fall, because it seems as though everybody is, but the issue there is that it's so beautifully shot and lit and it lingers on the women's bodies," says Wainwright. "Happy Valley was shocking at times and difficult to watch, but we were careful not to be gratuitous and not to show women as nothing more than a slab of meat".
From untimely blinks and awkward smirks to hard to shoot back-lit situations, the compact PowerShot SX210 IS, PowerShot SD3500 IS and PowerShot SD1400 IS cameras offer a variety of technologies to secure the best pictures under the most challenging conditions.
When I got the call saying the show had been green-lit, I was shooting on a farm somewhere, wearing a wizard beard painstakingly applied clump by clump.
In a lot of ways it makes sense; the digital revolution turned out mostly to be a bunch of butterfly wings photoshopped over soft-lit pregnant women shot on a Canon 8D.
