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Thursday 2nd of September 2010
.jpg) Lensmodern member Martin Brent is the photographer behind the latest Speedo 'Shoal' campaign. Shot earlier this year at Pinewood Studios underwater stage, it was a huge production involving underwater lighting and camera equipment and featuring swimmers from the British Olympic team. Martin said it was "a fabulous shoot by any standards, both creatively and technically challenging not least as it was shot underwater." 100,000 watts of HMI lighting was used above and under the water to create both the still and moving imagery for the campaign, which was commissioned by London agency Iris. Click here to see a movie about the making of the campaign.
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Wednesday 1st of September 2010
Lensmodern member Anne McAulay has been chosen by Russia's 'Digital Photo' magazine as their top photographer for the September edition which features street photography. Born in London, Anne McAulay is half French and half English. She has moved to and from a total of 6 countries during her life-time, but a few years ago she decided to settle in Paris, the city where many of her photographs were taken. Essentially a spontaneous street photographer, Anne is well known for capturing emotional story-telling moments of city life in the metro, streets and cafés, during the day or night. The interview with Anne and a selection of her images are shown in the magazine over four double-page spreads. Click here to download the magazine's questions and Anne's answers in English.
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Monday 26th of July 2010
Gozo Mansour is currently exhibiting in a group show at the Iris Gallery in Boston entitled 'At the Water's Edge'. As the title of the exhibition suggests, the theme of the show is environments featuring water - from the sea to swimming pools. The Iris Gallery, which is located at 129 Newbury Street Boston, shows contemporary fine art photographic images, produced within the last 30 years by established and emerging photographer. Originally established in May 2004 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the Boston branch opened in 2007. Gozo's image, entitled Freedom & Joy, is the first of a new series of large panoramas. The exhibition is on show until 6th September. |
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Wednesday 21st of July 2010
 An image by Jens Lucking, entitled 'Leaning Al', has been selected for the Art of Photography Show, a world-class international exhibition of photographic art which will be held at the two-level Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego from 28th August to 7th November. The image is one of just 113 selected for the show, from an entry of over 13000, by this year's judge Natasha Egan, Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
This is the sixth year of this major photographic exhibition. Their mission for this annual project is "to create an ideal forum for photographers to exhibit and sell their work, reaching our very large community of art collectors, affluent individuals, corporate heads, civic leaders and very influential people who make up the Art of Photography Show audience. We will be pursuing a vigorous marketing and publicity campaign, to bring maximum media attention to the artists who are juried into the exhibition. Our great love of this art form (and being photographic artists ourselves) prompts us to 'pull out all of the stops' in order to showcase a truly excellent presentation of photographic art, to elevate and promote this art form, and to provide substantial benefits to the exhibiting artists."
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Tuesday 20th of July 2010
 An image by Henk Bleeker was one of just a few hundred successfully selected nominees from an entry of thousands in this year's Photography Masters Cup. Henk's image, entitled 'Queenie' was nominated in the Professional Fashion category.
The Photography Masters Cup is an annual international competition which honours colour photography. An impressive list of judges from the world of photography, publishing and advertising have the task of selecting the nominees in both the professional and amateur category,from which the winners and honorable mentions are chosen. The winners then compete for the grand title of Photographer of the Year which is announced during a live on-line presentation in March. The evening welcomes the industry's elite and the most influential names in photography from the press, media, galleries, publishers, editors, critics, auction houses, agents and the artists themselves, who all come together in celebration of the color still image. Last year's show attracted over 40,000 online viewers who logged on from 154 countries to see the winners. The next on-line presentation, for the 5th of these annual awards, will take place on Sunday 11th March 2011 and entries are open now.
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Wednesday 14th of July 2010
 Lensmodern member Clare Park was recently awarded a Gold Medal and the £2000 Allen & Overy Prize in the Royal Photographic Society's 153rd International Print Exhibition for 'From the Real to the Sacred', an image taken from 'Breaking Form', a narrative photographic study of Buz Williams and Parkinson’s disease, developed over the past fifteen years within a context of its creators’ personal lives and shared professional backgrounds of theatre, movement and dance. "The images are built on small details that tumble out of memories and imagination," says Clare, "yet it is the perspective beyond the day-to-day reality of Parkinson’s imbued within the imagery, that offers inspiration to Buz, as well as the possibility of a personal connection for the viewer. Placing himself in the public sphere and gaze gives Buz a sense of power and self-recognition at a time when control is diminishing in his everyday life, yet the intimacy and tenderness of this portrait hopefully extends outwards to remind people of the universality of our human condition." To read about Clare's experience of the nude as a subject for photography, click here to download a PDF.
 Also featured in the exhibition is an image by Paul Brooking entitled 'To Have and To Hold'. Paul's image is based on the theme of loneliness within relationships. A woman, dressed in civilian clothes, is juxtaposed against a bleak war torn background of a battlefield with trenches and a tank. The woman doesn’t see the battlefield, she feels it - it’s a physical representation of her paranoia; she is alone in a world of conflict. Her mind is obsessed with the dominance of her partner, the entrenchment of ideals, the suppression of her free spirit. The image is one of several that form part of sequence of a short film which reveals more of her story.
The 153rd International Print Exhibition begins its tour this week at Allen & Overy, One Bishops Square, London E1, from 15 July to 31 August. It will then go on to Aberystwyth Arts Centre from 11 September to 6 November, Banbury Museum & Gallery from 11 December to 22 January 2011, the Bonjga Gallery on the Shetland Isles from 29 January to 13 March and Birmingham Institute of Art & Design from 26 April to 26 May. For further details visit www.rps.org.
Photographs by Clare Park (above) and Paul Brooking (right) |
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Tuesday 6th of July 2010
.jpg) Lensmodern member Henk Bleeker has been included in the Olympus Digital SLR 'Top Photographers' list on the Olympus website. Born 1969 in Hallum, in the Netherlands, Henk studied photography at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague 89-94. His work is included in collections at the Friesian Museum in Leeuwarden and the Photo Museum of The Hague, as well as in a large number of corporate and private collections, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Whilst predominantly working for an applied direction design bureau in his commissioned work, his main passion lies with his personal projects which have included in-depth photo studies of boxers and cowboys.
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Thursday 1st of July 2010
 Lensmodern member Elina Moriya has been awarded a one year State Grant by the Arts Council of Finland. The State Grants are working grants and are awarded to artists for safeguarding their working conditions, as well as education and continuing education at home and abroad. Originally born in Japan to a Finnish mother and Japanese father, Elina grew up in Finland. She now lives and works in the UK and is one of 13 artists awarded grants by the Finnish National Council for Photography for 2011.
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