Chester Photo Festival, Making Voices Heard, Photography, Films, interventions.
The Exhibition Book is now available for just £29 plus P&P –
Featuring selected works and personal insights from 85 participants from U.K. and 25 other countries.
A Hardback book of 148 pages, 150 gsm silk paper with high-definition printing, 180x210mm portrait designed and edited by myself.
Showcasing over 200 incredible works, diverse voices and visions from Chester and beyond!
Here is the mission statement –
“The Chester Photo Festival (which ran till 22nd May all around Chester) seeks to celebrate the democratisation of photography as an art, enabling photographers at all levels of experience to innovate through networking and creative engagement with exhibition spaces in Chester. Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, Unit 12 Grosvenor Shopping Centre, Chester, CH1 1ED Just behind the Grosvener Hotel. Lots of artists showing their photography, plus short films shown in the Chester Picture House.
Films at the Picture House
Click on the image below to see one of the 6 films shown in the Festival,
An 11 minute short story, Presented by One Day Films – Created by Erik Knudsen
A ten year old boy, Jacob, is escaping with his friends from having stolen a Victoria Cross from a local Services Legion. Being the one who is in possession of the stolen medal of honour, he is hiding from several people. Eventually, he is befriended by a mysterious person who changes his life.
2- An eighty year old man, Alf, has lost someone and every day he visits this location looking for Vera. We observe him coming and going over three days, calling for and looking for Vera. On the third day, he encounters a mysterious person who changes his life.
‘Circles of confusion’ project shown at the festival,
Paradise Works Gallery
Paradise up North show
Absolutely delighted to be accepted for the Paradise up North Exhibition which features mine and Angela’s (Tait) life sized chippy fork which is part of our Northern Willow collection. This is an ongoing body of work which explores place through the medium of porcelain casts of disposable containers which are adorned with our own interpretation of the willow pattern that replaces the original Chinese visuals with landscape and architecture from the North of England. You can see the whole design here
Mike’s Bikes
Mike kindly lent his Vincent Black Shadow for a a photoshoot at the Furness Motorcycle Club meet. What a Bike! Beyond its years in function speed and innovation.
The Vincent was a very early use of the engine as a stressed member of the frame, and uses a cantilever suspension system. This model of bike was made even more famous by Rollie Free when he set a record speed of 150mph at Bonneville whilst riding prone in his shorts! This was in 1948.
Then Mike turned up with a ‘Bowmont’ a super rare Scottish bike, in fact this is the only known one left! So rare that it is very difficult to find out much about it, Mike intends to get it properly running very soon.
Café Royal Books have published me & free print
To celebrate the first edition print run of Café Royal book (ISSN 2752-5519) 36pp.
I am including a signed and numbered mini print on the obverse, with each book, limited to the first 50.
The Cost is the same as from Café Royal without the print @ £9.00 including postage to the U.K. There is also a brief description of the taking of the image.
Just drop me an email @ iankclegg@btinternet.com with your address, and I will reply with payment details.
Tell It Like It Is, Exhibit, open well into March 24
In the gallery room at The Real Camera Company, Hatton Garden Liverpool, L3 2FE.
I am re-showing a selection of Silver Halide Gelatin prints from the show previously exhibited in the the Open Eye. Now this is an opportunity for people to see them in the ‘real’ as last time COVID got in the way. There is also a reel of over a hundred images not previously seen. See post above for the book to compliment the show.
Please pop in during business hours, it is a lovely gallery and a fantastic camera shop selling only used, mainly analogue photography ‘Stuff’. Send me a message through the contact page if you like the work.
Article, Northern Ireland, a round trip.
Day one, Classic Land Rover owner Gerard McKay gave us a whistle-stop tour of the bottom right of Northern Ireland, with the occasional jaunt across the border. This high spot gave us a fantastic view, and we were grateful for Gerard’s gift of scones and butter, eaten off the wings of the Landies. Ian ‘photographing’ and Care ‘doing the words’.
Belfast Docks
Sometimes you spot a backdrop that just suits the subject so well. We were surrounded by wonderful machinery and buildings but this small doorway to this engineering company look special. This Land Rover, James’s Dad’s, was left in a hedge on the farm after it stopped working. He meticulously hand-painted it and restored the chassis, remarkably the engine didn’t need anything done to it. The vehicle and James will be featured in Land Rover Classic magazine in Dec 22.
Ireland, via Land Rover, Classic Land Rover Magazine, Oct 22 issue
The start of the Irish trip begins at Birkenhead docks, whilst waiting for the ferry we venture some pics by the Old Tunnel vent. Incredible structure made from millions of bricks. opened in 1934.
Liverpool nominated buildings of the U.K.
Probe records, building number 45, a published article nominating them as building of interest, put forward by graphic designer ‘Swifty’ in association with the ‘Building Centre’ London . Using my image of the record shop and a quote from my experiences there.
Black + White Noise Exhibition, Interactive exhibition in the Media Factory Gallery, UCLan Preston.
A set of 6 New Works of Transitioning Photography and Organ Composition.
Fallen, Soft, Waking, Disappearance, Light, Touch
A combination of photographic prints and QR Code links to unique music compositions on YouTube.
Based around the Rule of threes – each image is created from 3 black and white images and the music utilizes the variants of threes in harmony rhythm and texture.
Artist statement –
Memories tend to be black and white; colours and sounds seem to fade over time, leaving contrasty images and thoughts.
Photographer Ian Clegg Says:
We interrogate this process by beginning with photographs in black and white and reverse engineering them into colour. As Vilem Flusser (2000) remarks, “black and white can reveal the concept of a photograph”. So, what if the colour photograph was a combination of three significant black and white images combined with sound? Does this improve the intended narrative or enhance the memories?
The tech bit –
The method involves photographing a subject with a black and white only camera through red, green and blue filters. The resultant monochrome images are then combined in an RGB colour space to produce the final image. This image is forever linked to a uniquely composed musical score via a QR code.
Composer Rebekah Okpoti Says:
I was drawn to the melancholy nature of the images. Using the Pipe Organ, Violin and Piano I wanted to capture the tone and timbre the images that were resting within. The photography is worked on in Threes so the musical composition also uses Aristotle’s Rule of three; that is
“The Rule of Three as a principle in writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things.” The composition uses the variants of 3s in harmony, rhythm and texture.
Artisans and Photographers, research project.
Photographer, Art Director, Designer, Visualiser, Creative Director, Account Manager, Artist, Lecturer are but some of the many job titles I have had during my experience within the advertising world. Throughout the decades I have worked on both sides of the camera, and spent the last 3 years researching the role photography takes in enabling artisans to maximise their presence on the high street.
As stated in my book – Creating photography for artisans, I include document blanks and further projects that I have been involved with my case studies – go to the menu tab for more info.
Blog, United Kingdom versus New Zealand
A playful look at the different (and same) cultural nuances of both countries. My imagery from the U.K. and Sam Henderson’s from New Zealand. https://ukvnz.wordpress.com
The Moroccan Land Rover article
On the Tinfou dunes Morocco, just west of Algeria.
In a journey around Morroco, we had one battered Series II and a Defender in tow. From river bed to rocky desert, Legionnaires forts and orange sand dunes. A local guide took us through the huge sand dunes. Whilst we drove in Land Rovers with squashy tyres he showed us the route on a 50cc moped. What a guy!
Out of the dusty landscape came this incredible figure carrying an immense load of what looked like dried plants. Brandishing an adz and shoeless. Then the groups of children that ran out from the mountain villages, or the extremely inventive fitter who repaired our unrepairable Land Rover’s tyre.
The Lost Pubs
Many many of these watering houses are no more, with the amount closing per week only the gastro and brasserie styled ones are surviving.
Whitaker Gallery, Rawtenstall, a third place
Urban Moth, a collaborative project
The unseen, hidden areas of empty houses
Vintage Collection of SX70 Polaroids
From film to web
A background in Design and Advertising. Creating images for publications, exhibitions and commissions. Also a penchant for film and alternative processes, running workshops and sessions to spread the word or image.
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