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Review on "Picturing the modern Exhibition" - From "shots at modernity"

DAVID DIMBLEBY recently painted ‘A Picture of Britain' for the BBC. It was one replete with Turner's violent skies and Constable's bucolic landscapes, taking in some of the nation's most popular and enduring images – with its focus set firmly in the past. "A rather different, but hardly less evocative, picture emerges in a remarkable new collection of photographs by postgraduate students at De Montfort University.

Picturing the Modern is an exhibition comprising the work of 12 recent graduates of the MA course in Photography. It captures some striking aspects of the UK in 2005 – though few that are likely to make it on to chocolate boxes any time soon.".

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Picturing the Modern

Group Show

Freuds, Oxford , UK

Sept 2005

The City Gallery, Leicester, UK

Jan 2006

 

Extreme: A Trans-Mongolian Adventure

Open Exhibition Based on the “Extreme” Theme

The Study Gallery, Poole, UK

Nov – Dec 2006

 

Macabre Thoughts of Future Mortality

Group Show

De Monfort University End of Year Show, Leicester UK

May 2005

 

Dorset Art Weeks

Young Artist Group Open Studio Show, Mixed Media

Two exhibits: Natural playlight and Response: Reappropriate

The Study Gallery, Poole, UK

June 2004

 

A Global 24hrs

Curated by myself, a Group show as part of the Biennial Poole Photography Festival

The Peacock Gallery, Poole, UK

April - May 2004

Café Blu, Bournemouth, UK
(Additional Work)

May 2004

Previous Exhibitions

Perspectives

MA Students show as part of the Biennial Poole Photography Festival

The Study Gallery, Poole UK

April - May 2004

 

Human Remains

Group Open Show

Jelly Legg’d Gallery, Reading UK

June – July 2003

 

Off the Colour

Solo Show

Café Blu, Bournemouth UK

April 2002

 

Britain In the 21st Century

Channel Four national Exhibition, Online Gallery @ Channel4.com

Summer 2000

 

Urban Decay

Group Show

De Monfort University End of Year Show, Leicester UK

May 1999

 

Reviews

Review on "Picturing the modern Exhibition" and the work of the Postgrad course students - From Hero Website

"An exhibition produced by students of the Master of Arts (MA) degree in Photography at De Montfort University begins a tour of the country this month with unique insights into modern British life, from the persistent popularity of the white wedding to the demise of the prefab house.

The 12 postgraduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and locations, with some living as far away from the Leicester-based University as Lancashire, Bournemouth and Gloucester. They all study under Prof Paul Hill MBE, renowned national photographer and former photojournalist.

The photographs reflect the diversity of ages, backgrounds, experience and geographical locations of the students. For some, the concern has been an exploration of how they came to be the people they are and who or what had influence on this. For others, the interest lay in their experience of contemporary society.

There are images of uncertain landscapes, of vulnerable bodies, premonitions and symbols of death, of beautiful eternal forms, street fashions and of the balance of power between the photographer and the photographed".

Foreward - Picturing the Modern catalogue by John Blakemore

"An M.A. course in photography is, it seems inevitably, a hybrid creature, attracting students of diverse ages, and of extremely varied experience and understanding of what photography is, or might become.

The medium has also undergine a period of radical interrogation and change, both of the means of production available to the image-maker, and of the theoretical and institutional context(s) in which work is made and understood. One should perhaps speak not of Photography but of Photographies to reflect more precisely the diversity of contemporary practices.

As always the work shown here reflects that diversity. The result of two years of questioning, of a sometimes anguished re-appraisal, of the attempt both to understand and to do it, has richness and complexity, demonstrates the students willingness to address personal issues, and to question and rework traditional genres.

To explore what ‘Picturing the Modern’ might mea".