Wedding, Music and Event Photography
Thursday the 7th April saw myself and StarvinArtist shoot a series of images that will, eventually, blend studio photography with Starvin's unique style of pencil drawing. The resulting images will be an initial pitch for a well known popular clothes label. It was a fun few hours creating crisp neat images followed by a few crisp cold pints in Electric. We got a good few shots down and now the leg work (or pencil work) is up to StarvinArtist... Can't wait to see the results. more…
The debate is recindled again as a Spanish academic gives new evidence to suggest Capa's photo is faked. Guardian article here ...and the debate continues. Much the same as with Dorethea Lange's 'Migrant Mother'. I find it interesting how history can focus wider debates on to a finite point in history. As if our whole trust in the reality of the photograph resides on whether Capa's photo is real or not. Although its probably more of an investigation into the photographers scruples than the nature of the photograph. There is no doubting in my mind that Capa was a more…
Consider: we trust photographs as pictures of reality but in reality they deceive us through pictures photographs can be easily accessible and simple to understand but at the same time they can have a complex 'text' or inferred reading we know how to appreciate the aesthetic of a photograph but only through 'borrowed' concepts from other non-photographic art forms A digital photographer "creates" using a independent mechanical/electrical process that does not (necessarily) need the photographer to create anything - merely press the shutter release These more…
The photograph as an object or virtual object is a powerfully attractive sight. The allure of a photograph is what i define as its 'immediate aesthetic': the initial pleasing effect the image causes in the viewer. The immediate aesthetic is important, now more than ever, as it is used to attract the viewers attention to the image - a valuable commodity of any photograph as we are constantly bombarded with visual images - especially considering the thumbnails we are presented with on the web. But to merely look at the immediate aesthetic as the nature of the image is more…
Anatomy of an Institution, an exhibition.
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…
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