Looking to make the best of today following an overnighter in London for the UK Agile Awards Dinner 2012 I decided to pay a visit to Tate Modern and find out what all the fuss was about with this new exhibition. I was not disappointed. The entrance fee of £14 (£12 concessions) was worth every […]
everything was moving – photography from the 60s and 70s
Yesterday, I had a memorable trip down memory lane and was jolted back into an age when I was albeit very young but aware of world events about me from by virtue of daily and Sunday papers. We had the wireless to listen to of course but it was images in newspaper articles or out […]
Harvesting long sown crops
September has been rather quiet with me being otherwise engaged in commercial shoots and getting some jobs done before even worse weather moves in. I had hoped to get some large format work done but this has slipped me by but I did get to finish a very satisfying commercial shoot for Seager Home Solutions […]
Another London, A Walk Through the Twentieth Century, The Turner Collection at TATE Britain
Another London is a splendid collection of Black & White photographs much lauded by the critics in the press so in order to make the best of collecting my rejections from the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize 2012 I trundled over to have a look. I was not disapointed. Most of the images enthralled me […]
Sign of the times
By chance I have taken a few strolls along the beach at Felixstowe with a few weeks separating the visits during June and July. I noticed that none of the ice cream huts were open and this was high summer, and mid-morning to midday. http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/galleries/landscapes/frozen/ The primary exercise was for me to push ISO 400 […]
Deutsche Börse at The Photographers’ Gallery
I first went to The Photographers’ Gallery to view Burtynsky’s gallery re-opening exhibition. How surprised was I to find the presentation looking like a totally different space. I have to admit to wondering at some of the press coverage but at the very least, I had high expectations of Pieter Hugo’s ‘The Hyena Men’. Well, […]
Large Format Portra 400
I’ve been a bit tardy of late with many other tasks to undertake but here are two examples of Kodak Portra 400 shot on my Toyo View 45C. Obviously the reduction in file size will have compromised the copies here but the detail and visual data knocks the spots off digital (in my view). These […]
Burtynsky Oil The Photographers Gallery 27th June 2012
I managed to get to see this exhibition with just a few days remaining. It was spread across the 4th and 5th floors of the Photographers Gallery. On entering the 4th floor after ascending the staircase one was met with a relatively dark environment with focussed lighting illuminating, in the main, 5 foot by […]
Avi Gupta “There is Here” Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts 26th June 2012 I stumbled upon this exhibition having been informed that it had finished. My initial view was from the mezzanine floor of the Sainsbury Centre where I was viewing an Art Nouveau exhibition. The space, when viewed from above was immediately encouraging in that it was […]
Salgado Genesis is biblical
The preview of Salgado’s Genesis in today’s Guardian is poetic to say the least. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jun/22/sebastiaosalgado-photography?INTCMP=SRCH Quite what genre one should put this in is anyone’s guess. It covers landscape,wildlife and anthropological subject matter. From the preview, it is truly biblical.