This blog has been a bit quiet lately, mainly due to my bloggging a series of portraits that I (and the very talented Jennifer Peel) took over the Artsfest weekend in September over on Birmingham Photospace. The images are being gradually revealed until the day the exhibition opens
Birmingham’s People is a project influenced heavily by Richard Avedon’s work and is an attempt to capture a snapshot of the people of the second city
I’d like to invite you to see the series in the flesh in an exhibition lasting from the 7th December until the 29th January at the The Drum Arts Centre in Aston.
We’ll have all 170 images on display plus 15 ’spotlight’ images on display as large high quality prints.
I’ll be giving an artists talk on Wednesday 9th December 7PM open to all readers of this blog, for further details and to reserve a free ticket please go to our eventbrite site.
If you require any further information or would like to receive our press release please email hello@birminghamphotospace.co.uk
Last Saturday I was lucky enough to photograph Musituality at St Phillips Cathedral in Birmingham, a celebration of Brum’s multicultural heritage organised by Rich Batsford. It was a deeply moving spiritual event and was set in gorgeous surroundings.
Last weekend was Project X Presents… Xhibition in which everyones favourite multidisciplinary Birmingham arts collective took over Moseley Village for a day. I’ve been involved with PXP for a couple of years now documenting their weird and wonderful events but this is the first time I had been asked to contribute a piece of art.
I attempted to capture a portrait of Moseley through compositing over 300 different images in a Hockneyesque style. The collage method injects an element of time into the photograph, creating a truer portrait of the area than simply a static image.
In the end, due to circumstances beyond the control of the Project X organisers, the final print did not make it to the exhibition. It will be exhibited somewhere soon!
Click on the image above to see a large scale version integrated with Google Maps, it loops and you can zoom in to appreciate the level of detail in the final print. There’s also a gallery of pictures taken on the night itself here.
Have been neglecting blogging here because I’m now blogging regularly over here, the new website for the Birmingham Photospace Group of which I’m a committee member.
It’s a really exciting project aiming to create a dedicated photography gallery in Birmingham and I’ll be writing posts about photography in general, from practitioners who I admire to techniques that I’m particularly fond of.
My own personal projects I’ll, of course, continue to document here!
Had a fun night participating in the 4AM Project last night, an attempt to document an hour when the world sleeps. The project has been organised by the very talented Karen Strunks
I was lucky enough to get the chance to document New Street Station and the Wholesale Markets, two Birmingham locations I’ve never had the chance to take pictures of before.
Karen has created a list of all the bloggers who documented the big night, it’s up here.
This blog has been a bit quiet lately, mainly due to my bloggging a series of portraits that I (and the very talented Jennifer Peel) took over the Artsfest weekend in September over on Birmingham Photospace. The images are being gradually revealed until the day the exhibition opens
