I recently photographed the private view for Clair Chinnery’s Solo exhibition at UCS Waterfront gallery. On loan from Colchester & Ipswich Museums was a stuffed Cuckoo. When Clair spoke about the chameleon-like manner in which the species Cuculus imitates the host bird’s egg size and colouring I could not help but notice how the lighting […]
Pictures at an Exhibition (3)
The frozen and grubby white Ipswich streets coupled with a lack of technical staff at UCS this morning have conspired to force me to generate new work from my previous assignment. Based on viewing rates generated by the computer program I used, I selected the top 18 images from both the Random Enigma and The […]
Busy start to December
What a hectic start to the month! Bettina von Zwehl attended UCS and presented a guest lecture and I was asked to photograph her. Then we had a Lee Miller lecture provided by her son and granddaughter that was extremely good and I got to take their pictures too. Add to that photographing the launch […]
Klein & Moriyama Tate Modern
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]