Action photo for John...

See John, I can do action shots...!!

PM Gallery, Ealing...

My Image, Veritas #Maeve, at the PM Gallery, Ealing...

The Exhibition is on until 29th Sept...

Veritas...

Veritas... The final images for my Photography Masters Degree...

As ever, thank you to all of my long suffering friends, family and neighbours for sitting for yet another of my ideas... 

Details for the final exhibition can be found at:

www.engaze.co.uk

MA Photography Show Website...

enGaze

Private View Thursday 13th September, 

Public View Friday 14th - Saturday 29th September at the PM Gallery, Ealing.
www.engaze.co.uk

The Olympic Stadium...

An amazing day out with Lewis Lewis...

My MA Muse Maeve...

This is the WIP for my MA Final Project...  following on from the style and theme I created for the last project I wanted to progress the idea of the untruth of images and the perception of the body...

This idea is twofold and circular - 1) it's about women's bodies being put on an unrealistic pedestal (esp.in the media) by body beautiful actresses, models etc who've had surgery or who have been airbrushed.  2) it's about the camera distorting and not being able to show the truth in a single photograph.  This second point adds the dimension that returns the concept to point no.1...

These images are influenced by Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud and I want them to have an almost painterly quality, playing with the notion that the camera, the photograph, never lies.

This image is a composite of 35 layered images of my lovely cousin Maeve...

What have you got yourself into...

My cousin Maeve, who I only met 2 weeks ago, has come to stay... why oh why did nobody warn her that this would happen...?!

Paul behave...

All you have to do is look at the camera and behave...!

PPPP.....

I don't want to turn into a PPPP (Pet Picture Post Person), but I love this photo of our little 19 year old cat Bernie :)

Lordy lordy...

Lordy Lawrence and beautiful Liss...

Wedding daze...

On a summers day in Henley... CONGRATULATIONS Emma & Mike!

Summer evenings...

Been a bit of a while since I posted - essays, weddings, interior design shoots... just the usual!  

Finally got a chance to sit down and relax in the garden ... :)

MA WIP contd...

I think I've re-sized and colour balanced as I want to now, although they do appear to look a bit yellow on this blog?  I think these 3 images will be the final 3 for display in the Conversation series, still deciding and playing around!  These 3 images seem to be more obscured and give a sense of the essence of a person, a sense of Benjamin's aura.

Three different decades are represented here in conversation - as Pena noted in the previous comments below, what do these images reveal about the person, about their age and experience?  What limitations can be revealed about the camera capturing a person in a halted 60th of a second?  How do we see our friends, family and people we meet, can we truly describe that person facially when we own myriad expressions? What is so different about arrested images and these blended images? - I would argue that anyone who knows these people would recognise them from these photos, even though no clear facial features are represented...

Another MA WIP...

Another image from the Conversation series, 50 images layered to form 1 image.  I think the colour balance is a bit more accurate, but still work to do! The framing works much better as well, especially for the series, possibly a bit more refining still required... They're slowly coming together :)

A conversation with Liz... 

Thank you Liz yet again for your help with another photographic project... I imagine Liz regrets the day that she found a house that "would be perfect" for Lewis Lewis and me, just around the corner from her!

MA work in progress...

This is one of my WIP images for one of my MA projects... N.B. There is still much work to do!
It's 50 layered images of one conversation.  The idea is to challenge the limitations of the camera and to bring to attention the fact that when we see another person, they have myriad expressions and facial features, all of which blend to create our understanding of that person's appearance. The camera only captures a halted moment of the depth of expression that we're capable of.

This is my lovely nearly mother-in-law Mia.