I went to the Faye Godwin Exhibition recently : Land revisted.
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/2010/August/LandRevisited.aspx
It was very inspiring. Although I am not a natural landscape photographer I love landscape photography. It was an amazing exhibition and really useful to see, particularly in terms of how the photography was displayed.
In fact I enjoyed it so much that I went twice. Once on my own and once with a friend.
There is a new exhibition on which I would love to go and see, sadly it's in Durham. Which is a bit of a trek. So wether I get there will be debatable.
The exhibition is by a photographer I really respect Chris Steele Perkins, a Magnum photographer -
A summary of Chris Steele Perkins quoted from the following website :
The award-winning Magnum Agency photographer, Chris Steele-Perkins came to England in 1949 when he was two, the son of a Burmese mother and English father. Remarkably calm and unprejudiced, he was uniquely qualified to chronicle England's evolution into an ethnically diverse society. Not that his aim in his England, My England anthology was to produce a sociological survey; instead, his collection is a kind of antidote to the rose-tinted myths peddled by the tourism industry. You won't find pomp and circumstance here, no Changing of the Guard, or a Henley Regatta. You will find people that you'd cross the street to avoid though.
In concentrating upon "everydayness and how that can be special" he unflinchingly records the absurdities, the pleasures and the tragedies of English life, invariably with wit and humour.
A University Gallery touring exhibition.
About Me
- Me
- Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- I am a father of two, who has been a paramedic for 15 years and a professional photographer for around 5. That is until recently, from the 1st of May 2017 I will no longer work on the frontline full time. Instead I have made the transition from specialist paramedic to advanced practitioner and will be working full time in primary care. This blog will chart the development of myself from my current role of specialist paramedic to an advanced practitioner. In the last year I was diagnosed with Ankylosing spondylitis. Which is a degenerative condition which affects the spine. While this diagnosis saddened me obviously. It also came as a relief as I had struggled for over a year and had no idea what was wrong with me. So the diagnosis also came with some relief as I finally had a name to put to my condition. It did help me to look forward and consider a new career pathway. I am the first paramedic to work in primary care in my practice area. This is quite an accolade.
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