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strangers pt III (working title)

A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Project update: "Strangers pt III' (working title), the project on which I have been working on since Autumn 2009 was drawing to a close: I have produced 8 images and photographed upwards of 10 volunteers. The Cornerhouse Micro Commission was to be conducted over three months and end in April (It has run over three months but whose counting?). My last blog post on the project noted that the framing and presentation was the next step in anticipation of exhibiting the images this spring. I am more…

April 20, 2011 By admin at 10:26 am

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strangers part III (working title)

A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Project update: Two weeks ago I embarked on a day of photographing the nice people who volunteered to be photographed. For some it was the second time I had photographed them and for others the first. I was kindly assisted in the morning by Phil (pictured in a previous image on this blog) and by Martyn (AKA Starvinartist) in the afternoon. The day was long and at points a bit crazy... being stood in the middle of Market St, Manchester, firing off photographs & off camera flash. It was great more…

March 30, 2011 By admin at 4:23 pm

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‘Sounds of The Downs’, A collaboration.

After a long while in our minds the 'Sound of The Downs' project has finally taken its first tentative steps into reality. On a particularly sunny and windy day on the South Downs myself and co-collaborator Tamsin Williams set up a basic strobe setup to photograph the dog walkers and their dogs on the South Downs. The shoot was primarily a test to see what we could do with the lighting and how we would like the photographs to look. It was an informative experience that we both learnt from and was also very promising as it delivered that sometimes illusive thrill of more…

March 13, 2011 By admin at 12:24 pm

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strangers part III

A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Project update: Many more people have volunteered to be photographed for this portrait project, some images have been more successful than others, generally down to the photography rather than the models. Now, as is usually the case, i have decided to reshoot the photographs to better illustrate the ideas and improve the photographs technically. Final shooting is now scheduled for mid-March over three hectic days... just got the planning to do so that all runs smoothly. As always, thanks more…

February 28, 2011 By admin at 3:36 pm

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strangers part III

A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Project update: Slightly delayed by Christmas, I am eventually out and about shooting, having had a good response from the kind people who have volunteered their services. Having photographed 6 people so far I am now able to take stock of the resulting images and the manner in which I am making decisions about location, subject and lighting. My ‘art’ photography always has a conceptual beginning: an idea about how/what the images communicate (or don’t). In much of my personal work more…

January 17, 2011 By admin at 5:05 pm

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Anatomy of an Institution, an exhibition.

Gavin Parry and Dave Penny using the 110-year-old camera.

On Anatomy of an Institution and having my portrait taken by an aged camera. This was not my first encounter with this camera. I first saw it several years ago when, some what neglected; it lifelessly occupied a corner of The Manchester Metropolitan University’s (MMU) photography department. I remember seeing it as a bizarre looking piece of furniture, a cross between an 19th century table and an accordion. Back then it was a mere curiosity, an ornamental relic and a taker-upper of valuable space. On entering the Holden Gallery the 110 year old 12” x 12” camera is more…

December 15, 2010 By admin at 3:52 pm

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strangers part III, A call for participants for photographic arts project.

A test image created with kind help of Angela (the model).

Strangers part III. A Cornerhouse Micro Commission, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Over the next three months I am embarking on a photographic portrait project commissioned by Cornerhouse (Manchester) and supported by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. To succeed, this idea needs your help… The project, currently titled ‘Strangers’, will realise a series of portraits photographed on location within the city of Manchester. The sitters (i.e. those who are photographed - not necessarily sitting!) are to be recruited through on-line adverts and will be unknown to me more…

December 2, 2010 By admin at 3:07 pm

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