My goal is to move people, like a piece of music. Within photography, I explore humanity as I experience it. My images appeal to sensory perception more than to that of the mind. By using black and white, contrast and grain, a parallel world is being created. An abstract. A world in which light and…
Daz Smith is a Bath-based graphic/web designer. His love is of black and white photography and recently of Street Photography. Daz can often be found, camera in hand, walking the streets of Bath looking for moments & interesting people to capture. Flikr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dazsmithpics/ Web: http://www.dazsmithphotography.com/
On Monday 14th March, our own Jon Leahy gave a presentation and led a discussion around popular forms of Street photography. Debate centred around the ethics of photography in public spaces and issues around democracy and access. A lively discussion ensued with lots of interesting and varied contributions from members with plenty of food for thought.…
We all observe and document what we see and think in different ways. Personally I find photography gives me the freedom to visually explore and analyse my thoughts, ideas and perceptions. I am always inspired when creating a body of photographic work and especially if this is done as part of a collective. I find…
Jon is a Bath based photographer interested in creative approaches to documentary. He works mainly in black and white and has been taking photographs for many years. He has had prints in a number of exhibitions and has self published two books of his work. Jon is interested in educational aspects of photography and has…
Carlos moved to Bath from Stroud, Gloucestershire, in March 2014. Back there he was a founder member of PhotoStroud, and organised the first Photography Festival in the region with Fred Chance, in 2007. Since then, he has worked on many festivals and exhibitions in Stroud and Havana. He began taking photographs as a child, living…
As an abstract artist, Anna’s concerns are partly to do with ambiguities of space and depth and also to do with exploring the structural elements of visual language – the syntax of line and form alongside the semantics of colour. Her photographs reflect and reinforce these concerns. With no manipulation once an image is taken,…
Phil is a working graphic and digital media designer. Photography has been integral to his design work as well as his chosen creative medium since leaving college in the mid 1980s. His most successful images often offer an intriguing, inherent narrative within a strong composition and lighting and are rarely appreciated at the moment of camera exposure.…
Dutch photographer Eli Dijkers gave an hour long talk about his work and that of his photographer heroes: Moriyama, Akkerman, Gilden, Sobel, Parke and others, at a very well attended meeting held at the Friends Meeting House, York Street last Monday. https://www.facebook.com/EliDijkersPhotography/?fref=ts Eli’s work is part of the ‘Otherness’ exhibition at Lane House Arts until February…