Overview Goodbye to Joe Cornish Gallery
On the 22nd June I’ll be saying goodbye to the gallery in Northallerton. For 6-months, I have really enjoyed being surrounded by outstanding landscape photography, working on calendar and greetings cards production; two major trade shows and having the opportunity to work alongside Joe in his digital studio. One thing I won’t miss, the weekly 3-4 hour drive to and from my base in the Chilterns to Northallerton. If you love landscape photography, put the Joe Cornish Gallery on your list of ‘100 Things to Do Before You Die’; and do it now…......you never know!
My April workshop was a great success. We started at dawn and finished at sunset with time off for good behaviour at mid-day! Workshop participants made some great photographs - almost all digital - and had a thoroughly enjoyable day. Watch out for these pictures going into the Gallery.
Large Format Workshops will feature the MPP MkVI Micro-Technical camera mentioned last month; despite it being a 1950’s vintage, the only maintenance needed was a shutter service. They don’t make them like that anymore - unless they are an Ebony SU or SW. Enjoy your photography…....
April 2008
1st April 2008
I was lucky enough to make time to go to 2 exhibitions; the Vanity Fair exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is quite amazing. In addition to my addiction to Bluebells, I love b&w fashion / portrait photography; this exhibition has it all; the glamour of Hollywood from the 1920’s through to the grittiness of Helmut Newton in the 90’s.
The second exhibition was David Ward & Anna Booth’s Landscape Beyond at the OXO tower. A great opportunity to meet some old friends and make new promises to meet up and make some pictures, and to stand in front of some stunning images. The minimilism of David’s ‘Empty Sea’, ‘Sand Pattern Durness’, and ‘Strangles Cornwall’ are quite breath-taking and infinite. Anna’s graphic ‘Frosted Lamp Nevada’ her perspective defying ‘Sand & Mud Patterns Sossusviei’ and Renaissance-like ‘Invading Sand Kolmanskop’ were equally stunning. A wonderful exhibition which has also challenged my current choice of Ciba/Ilfochrome for my prints. David and Anna’s choice of inkjet prints - some as large as 48” x 60” and that’s 1200mm x 1500mm in new money - was inspired; the quality of the prints was outstanding even at nose-to-the-print distance. If you missed the exhibition, do buy David’s book Landscape Beyond which has several of his exhibition pictures and lots of ideas that make your brain hurt! Landscape Beyond is a book that I strongly recommend.