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Your questions about my Photography
What happened to your fantastic photocollages? I continue to be fascinated by the unique elements of multiple image composition - Hockney delved there but stopped short. They're coming (to the website), but photographing the works is complex. they are mostly large (up to 12' by 8'), and difficult to capture in small screen images. For those who haven't seen the work exhibited, they follow and greatly extend the style popularised by David Hockney in the 1980's. I extended the approach through several deliberate variants, such as image-over-time, cut-up, subject size variance, overall form etc. Frankly there's a whole career in just these works so I'll limit what I say about them for now. Do you do commercial work? No. It's not my profession, but I will recommend people. Will you take on a formal photo shoot? Yes. If there is an artistic outcome that's required. Some of my work is perfectly suited for capturing more than usual approaches do. Then again, for strictly formal work I would recommend people in the profession. The Sicily series is twenty years old. How long have you been a photographer? I don't think of myself as 'a photographer', I am a relentless creative person who sometimes works within photographic boundaries to obtain a creative result. I've been using photography for as long as I could afford a camera. Photography seems to be contradictory to your painting approach, don't you think? Photography brings out the more contemplative and singularly assertive artistic process. But my other art can also required sustained discipline and precision. Single shot photography forces me to isolate, and limits manipulation (but I'm working on that). The decision may be the result of lenghty contemplation. |