David Hurn

I'm off to Cardiff tomoorrow for this, looking forward to seeing David talk but also collecting a print I was lucky enough to win via the Third Floor Gallery flickr competition. So stoked.

Daylight Multimedia- David Hurn - Passing Time - Third Floor Gallery Cardiff from Daylight Multimedia on Vimeo.

Alan Powdrill

Awhile ago I saw Alan Powdrill's Reality Football at the printspace. I thought it was a great series. If you did miss it and want to see it, it's now on at Wembley Stadium (as in home of UK football)

Images © Alan Powdill

Strangelands

Opens this friday at Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, I'm going to try and make it up.

strangelands: trailer from strange.rs on Vimeo.

Beso Uznadze

Saw some of Beso Uznadze's portraits in the Photo Gallery in Bristol today.

Images © Beso Uznadze

Jane Hilton - Dead Eagle Trail

A while ago I went to Host gallery and saw Jane Hilton's Dead Eagle Trail, A beautifully shot portrait of the modern American Cowboy,

Images © Jane Hilton

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Debut 2010

Realised I haven't posted photos from the Debut 2010 show at Proud Central, Lot's of lessons learnt from the whole experience, thanks to everyone who played a part in the whole exhibition down the line. Photos Courtesy of Tom Hole.

Jocelyn Bain Hogg - Muse

I went to the opening of Jocelyn Bain Hogg's Muse at Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff on Friday. I had never been to the gallery before as it is relatively new this being the third exhibition, but was welcomed by the owners who were very friendly, Jocelyn's new work based on J.G. Ballard's The kindness of Women where he states that beauty is the square inch of skin on waking up to your loved one, the close up photographs depict an honest intimate insight in to the un-retouched female form. Challenging the modern day search for air-brushed perfection. This work may seem somewhat different at first from his other work such as the firm and Pleasure Island, but when I asked him he said that his work relates to those things that we as modern day society idolise and fantasise about. The large prints gave the oppertunity for the viewer to get a larger than life view of what some people may consider "imperfections" of the female form, putting the viewer in a slight discomfort.



































































Images © Jocelyn Bain Hogg

Some snaps of the gallery

Small Victories - booooooom

booooooom's new project Small Victories is a photographic celebration of the everyday! looking for 4x6 prints of the quietly beautiful, unintentionally funny, people and things all around us. Those photographs selected will culminate in a photo show at Above Second gallery in Hong Kong, in May. The deadline for submissions is 30th of April. for more details click on the photograph.

Stephen Vaughan - Ultima Thule

So one of the best things about being back at AUCB, is having a gallery on campus, at the moment Stephen Vaughan's Ultima Thule is exhibitioning and will be until the 27th of November, the project takes it's name from an ancient historical term to describe the mysterious northern frontier, representing a distant unknown region at the extreme limit of exploration and discovery. The large format photographs explore the connections between geology, archaeology and history. the images reveal landscapes marked by volcanic activity, shifting tectonic plates, vast glaciers and steaming sulphurous pools. (Words from the exhibition guide, tried scanning but came out really badly)

Martin Schoeller

So I have been going on for a while about a catch up on the exhibitions I have been visiting over the summer. As soon as I landed in Paris I noticed Martin Schoeller was having an exhibition at A. Galerie, it seemed like it was more aimed at art buyers as a sort of Paris this is Martin Schoeller, not really a theme to the exhibition more just a showcase of his recent portfolio, but the oppertunity to see large prints of photographs taken on 10x8 should never be missed. Here is the flyer for the exhibition. (On a side note Zidane is one of my heroes).

Stories of The eye

Just a quick blog as I can't sleep, Vice are running a photo competition along with Olympus, four categories to choose from (London, eye do what i want, eye travel, eye style) the winner getting a new Olympus pen and a opportunity to exhibit in London, check here for more

Week 20 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Went to the Wildlife photographer of the year award exhibition at the museum, the standard of photography is really high and the photographs that interested me the most were the ones shot underwater with flashes. 

so I looked into this whole area of photography, found out that warm colours are absorbed if you dive to as deep as about 50 feet which is why most underwater photography is done either wide angled with the subject in the foreground or macro close up shots, and to eliminate as much water as possible, I would love to do some underwater photography and was always a keen watcher of David Attenborough documentaries whilst I was young, I just don't think I am going to be able to finance this for a while, but it was interesting to learn about this other side of photography.

Below One of the photographs from the exhibition.