11 Days Inside exhibition

It is getting ever nearer, the group exhibition consisting of myself, Robert Attard, Tascha Urso and Richard Jones begins 1st August 2013, with the Private View from 6pm to 10pm. It is being held at The Old Police Station in Deptford.

The four of us will each be exhibiting in our own prison cell. A highly unusual space to show our work.

Exhibition website: www.11daysinside.weebly.com

Salgado exhibition at the Natural History Museum

A couple of weeks ago I visited the much talked about Sebastião Salgado exhibition. I thought the exhibition certainly fitted into its exhibition environment - a natural progression from the displays of animals into beautifully presented large framed images of nature. Although, I don't know a lot about Salgado's work, I did appreciate and love his early film work when thumbing through a book on Salgado last year.  Back to the exhibition - Although I enjoyed it, I did feel there were too many images (half the amount would have been ample in my opinion). The other aspect of this exhibition I didn't like was Salgado's experimentation with digital grain. In my opinion film grain can't be replicated, and if you are not shooting with film, then don't try and replicate film grain digitally.

Gladstone – Pits and Pots

The wonderful architecture of this last complete Victorian Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent encapsulates the pottery scene during the Industrial Revolution. The pottery and coal industries worked together in producing the coal to fire the kilns to the creation of English fine bone china.

Time and Place

The Elm, Alder and Poplar trees in this wood have suffered from disease, been relatively short lived, and have had their roots rotted by flood water. They have fallen where they have stood. Out of this ruinous process has evolved a floor of moss-covered shapes creating a valuable wildlife environment for invertebrates, mosses and lichens. Time has shaped this wood and is evident everywhere.

Camden Portraiture

These Camden Market traders were kind enough to take part in a project about spontaneous portraiture. Signs of their characters are etched onto their faces. Through photographing them with a deadpan pose, I wanted subtle nuances in their facial expressions to show how they responded when being photographed.

'Metropolis: Reflections on the modern city' exhibition

I went to the 'Metropolis: Reflections on the modern city' exhibition last week at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. It was one of the best exhibitions I have ever seen. Highly inspirational and each work beautifully presented. It is on from 23 March - 23 June and is free admission. I know it is quite a distance from London, but for anyone in the Birmingham area with a few hours to spare it is definitely worth seeing.

Link: http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=2362

Documentary Narrative

From inspiration found in Paul Graham’s A1 – The Great North Road series, I photographed my own road trip of the A21 from Lewisham to Hastings. This social documentary narrative contains genres of portraits, landscapes and still lives.