Here's a reminder of what we covered at ESIG this week, along with links to the photographers we discussed.
We had three talks:
Steve started us off with a talk about a Croatian street photographer, Olga Karlovac. There are some fine words on her web site describing Olga's work - 'Atmospheric, and rich with emotion, her imagery resonates a melancholic beauty and invites one to take a poetic journey into the shadows as a fellow conspirator.' I don't know about that but she does have a distinctive and attractive style produced by long(ish) exposures and high contrast images. The exposures are just long enough to produce a bit of blur and movement to produce more of an impressionistic result. See https://www.olga-karlovac-photography.com/site/. There's more on Instagram I think Steve said.
David then described a short course he had just finished at St Martin's on 'Photography and Performance'. This stretched our (my) thinking a bit (more than a bit). David raised questions about the relationship between a performance and the photograph, and asked who is the author of a performance photograph - the photographer or the performer. My own thoughts were that if we are taking a photograph of a street performer, then are we as photographers simply passive recorders of the event? But then because we could make that recording in many different ways the photographer must be playing an active part. But then that questions what is the performance - the street performance itself or the photograph? Are you still with me? David undoubtedly gave a presentation that made me think, and I hope you too.
I finished off our talks with the work of a photographer I've met at the group I belong to called Gamma. I may have mentioned this before. Jose Closs produces work on a wide range of subjects and in different styles. More recently these have been more abstract, in camera multiple exposures - for example see the Architectural Abstract gallery http://www.josecloss.co.uk/architectural%20abstracts/index.html. These are very graphic, intensely colourful images which I like. But please also explore other galleries, e.g. People, to see images that are completely different.
We finished off with our usual Portfolio session. I don't normally comment on these individual photographs, but I will mention the one from Richard Gibbs which was taken in the David Hockney exhibition at Lightroom - see https://lightroom.uk/. The photograph is interesting and showed how the exhibition wraps around the audience making them, all but, part of the exhibition itself. Richard highly recommended the exhibition which is still on until 4th June.
We had three talks:
Steve started us off with a talk about a Croatian street photographer, Olga Karlovac. There are some fine words on her web site describing Olga's work - 'Atmospheric, and rich with emotion, her imagery resonates a melancholic beauty and invites one to take a poetic journey into the shadows as a fellow conspirator.' I don't know about that but she does have a distinctive and attractive style produced by long(ish) exposures and high contrast images. The exposures are just long enough to produce a bit of blur and movement to produce more of an impressionistic result. See https://www.olga-karlovac-photography.com/site/. There's more on Instagram I think Steve said.
David then described a short course he had just finished at St Martin's on 'Photography and Performance'. This stretched our (my) thinking a bit (more than a bit). David raised questions about the relationship between a performance and the photograph, and asked who is the author of a performance photograph - the photographer or the performer. My own thoughts were that if we are taking a photograph of a street performer, then are we as photographers simply passive recorders of the event? But then because we could make that recording in many different ways the photographer must be playing an active part. But then that questions what is the performance - the street performance itself or the photograph? Are you still with me? David undoubtedly gave a presentation that made me think, and I hope you too.
I finished off our talks with the work of a photographer I've met at the group I belong to called Gamma. I may have mentioned this before. Jose Closs produces work on a wide range of subjects and in different styles. More recently these have been more abstract, in camera multiple exposures - for example see the Architectural Abstract gallery http://www.josecloss.co.uk/architectural%20abstracts/index.html. These are very graphic, intensely colourful images which I like. But please also explore other galleries, e.g. People, to see images that are completely different.
We finished off with our usual Portfolio session. I don't normally comment on these individual photographs, but I will mention the one from Richard Gibbs which was taken in the David Hockney exhibition at Lightroom - see https://lightroom.uk/. The photograph is interesting and showed how the exhibition wraps around the audience making them, all but, part of the exhibition itself. Richard highly recommended the exhibition which is still on until 4th June.
