Every week at university we have visiting lecturers, who give lectures about their work. mainly they are photographers, sometimes art photographers. It is an amazing opportunity to hear professionals talk about their work, and especially when some 'big name' people come to talk, and photographers who you really like. Also when a photographer comes and you have a new found respect for, and really get into their work after.
This happened last week. I had seen some of the work before, and heard the photographers name, but never associated the two together. The photographer was Stephen Gill. He was amazing, he had a really quite, gentle voice, and used slides with an old slide projector (most people just to powerpoint presentations). He had a funny posture, and long arms, and it felt like you just wanted to invite him round for tea and a game of scrabble. Anyway, it was really inspiring, and he works in many ways like i do, or at least thinks in similar ways. He also has his own publishing company (my main aspiration) and champions hand-made objects, especially books.
He showed us quite a few bodies of work, but my favourites were the Billboards (of which i had seen and liked before but not known the photographer) and the Hackney Flowers. Billboards is a body of work of photographs taken of the backs of billboards. They are then simply captioned with the tag line of the advert. The other work is Hackney flowers, which are photographs of the area of Hackney, with Gill's collections of flowers and seeds from the area placed ontop of the original photo. I really love both, and his other work, and him! look at his stuff! http://www.stephengill.co.uk/portfolio/news
I will try and talk about some of the other photographers who have been to visit because there have been some other really good ones!
Post if you have been inspired recently by an artist/photographer/person/whatever! i like to be inspired too!
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(Left) Fight the cold. Practice self defence – Danone Actimel.
(Right) It's time to leave the country – Thomas Cook
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