Aaron Schuman is a senior lecturer at the AIB as well as lecturing in Brighton and I was lucky enough to catch his exhibition 'Once Upon a Time in The West' at the HOST gallery which ended on the 9th of May but the series can be seen on Aaron's website. The photographs for this showcase were photographed on the eroding sets and locations of Sergio Leone's celebrated 'Spaghetti Westerns', deep in the Almerian deserts of southern Spain. Aaron recently became fascinated by the notion that a fundamental American achetype-the Wild West, and it's associations with freedom, independence, rebelliousness, brutality, morality, honour and so on- had benn transposed by an Italian film director onto the landscape of Franco's Spain, and subsequently came to define this 'quintessentially American' genre in itself. Schuman has been particularly interested in exploring these remnants and what they may say about America today. (note: this blurb has been stolen from the blurb from the exhibition)
I really like being able to go to exhibitions whenever I am in London which isn't as frequently as I would like and it has been especially enjoyable to see some of my lecturers work in the form in which it is intended. Hopefully going to the print space to see 5 emerging photographers at the LPA Futures 09 including Ben Robberts (who I highly rate, and is an alumni at AIB) who recently won the BJP project assistance awards so congratulations to him.
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