The David Hockney exhibition 'The Arrival of Spring' is absolutely beautiful. It's near Oxford Circus, is free, and beautifully lit; go see it if you have a chance.
They've also got the video collage of the Wolds in Winter, which I missed at RA, and I'm STOKED I get to see it now in a lovely quiet setting with wooden floors. Bliss.
What makes a meaningful portrait? How can we understand what the face is telling us?
as part of The Face Series I analyze the Beekeeper diptych by Richard Avedon, and what gave each such profound meaning for him.
http://www.richardmunnphotography.com/blog/the-face-series-richard-avedons-beekeeper/15/5/2014
I've just written a new blog here on the role of the face in creating an engaging portrait using Arnold Newman's work with Pablo Picasso and Paul Ekman's work on the face. You'll be surprised what a small muscle round the eye can do for you.
Photograph by Arnold Newman of Picasso (cropped from original):
Something I love to do is get out into nature and take my camera with me as a notebook of shapes, lines, light, and, of course, the big beautiful world.
Here's two recent landscapes. The first is a photocollage made from three separate images, the second was taken at 6am this morning, with some beautiful soft and low-raking sunrise.
Really proud of my girl, who completed Tuff Mudder this weekend. Ice tanks, rope climbs, miles of muddy running? No probs.
I was off taking photographs between cheering her team on, and had a lot of fun making this three image photocollage. I took each image individually and 'stiched' them together in post-production.
Hey SG land, how have you been?
I've enjoyed Easter away in Yorkshire, getting hiking into some waterfalls and taking pictures. I'm now back and building my portfolio with artists, I recently worked with someone who's work is in the National Gallery, it was an amazing day, and I learnt an absolute ton. How have you been? What have you been up to?
I'd love to know what the most thoughtful thing/s a photographer did/gave/said was while you were working with them.
Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine guys and gals x
I've not been so busy on here recently as I've been hustlin' away at this photography game. Starting to see things paying off, and have an environmental portrait featured in the Evening Standard, a London-based newspaper found often on seats and in hands on the Underground and buses as commuters make their way home after the grind.
http://www.run2work.com/tips-and-advice/get-to-work-swedish-style/
After lots of squirreling away on Squarespace (much love to those guys!) I've got my new website together. If I do say so myself it's a beautiful layout with beautiful black and white portraits. In the future I'll be selling landscape prints, and I'm in the process of testing a new paper that has a silver gel base but can be printed digitally, perfect for...
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I'm in the process of research for book project I'm putting together around sex, sexuality, and gender. The photographs will be taken by myself, and the book will include essays from leading psychosexual therapists commenting on themes raised by the imagery.
The hope is that, like Blake's poetry, the visual and textual will evoke each other and give people a work that engages them in...
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