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Imagine at the Old Lookout

I was lucky enough to be involved in a small exhibition at the Old Lookout Gallery in Broadstairs over the last weekend. There was a great mixture of work on display, showing the real diversity that bringing eleven of this year's second year Photography Students together creates, no two pieces were alike.

 

 

A few hours spent curating on Sunday afternoon where a great experience, even if the number of visitors was slightly lacking due to the poor weather. Thankfully with Anita and Joy for company, this didn't get our spirits down.

Chris

500 Days

Having reached Day 500 of the Izzy Photo A Day Project, I used the End of Year Exhibition at University to showcase all of the images in miniature. Displayed in 35mm slide mounts, the photographs were displayed as one large block (16 by 32).

Before you start questioning your maths, you are right - that is 512. The final twelve slots were used to title the piece. It took around fifteen hours spread over a week to prep all of the images, seven hours over two days to hang them and just two to take them down again at the end of the Exhibition.

I hope you got a chance to see it 'in person', but if not then these images will help you to envisage it. Here's to the next 500 days!
Chris

Blog Quote of the Month

A list that will be updated monthly with the latest Quote of the Month featured in the header of this Blog.

February 2011:
"I want my photography to be special. I don't want you to have a free ride thinking it's anything to do with art..."
Don McCullin

March 2011:
"...so take the photographs and still frames in your mind."
GreenDay - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

April 2011:
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams

May 2011:
"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life..."
Robert Capa

June 2011:
"Be original or die!"
Madame Yevonde

July 2011:
"An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it."
Paul Valéry

August 2011:
"In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light."
Hans Hofmann

September 2011:
"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it."
Henry Moore

October 2011:
"...whether a million monkeys with a million digital cameras would eventually shoot the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson?"
Peter Stevenson

November 2011:
"The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it."
Banksy

I hope these quotes provide as much inspiration for you as they do for me. Check back in due course for the latest one.

Chris

Aperture 3

Today I took, and thankfully passed, the Apple Certified Pro (level one) exam for Aperture 3. A little bit of self-congratulation and immodest boasting never hurt anyone, so 'well done me'. My University course at CCCU kindly picked up the tab, so let's call it a double win.

Chris

In Search of Hockney

The finished article for Documenting the Real.

It didn't quite work out as planned, but ok nonetheless.

Chris