Tag: sculpture
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Degree show, Manchester Metropolitan University: photos published
A quick follow up to the original Manchester Met University degree show (MMU) post: I’ve just got my hands on the published embroidery exhibition guide which includes 40+ photographs I took for the talented final year Embroidery students. I’m really proud to have taken part in the process of documenting the student’s work, it was…
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Refugee Week drama workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The 14th-20th June 2010 is Refugee Week and I was proud to be part of the activities at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, exploring the experiences and raising awareness of asylum seekers in the UK. I was drafted in to provide event photography support for an all-day drama workshop hosted by Ice & Fire, a theatre company…
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Tread Softly at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Crawling on all fours through thick undergrowth to photograph a family of clay hedgehogs and then being chased by a giant snake? All in a day’s work at the ‘Tread Softly Tracks and Traces’ event at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The brief was to capture engaging photographs of young aspiring artists enjoying a day in the…
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Degree show at Manchester Metropolitan University
Documenting the art, textiles and sculpture of twenty seven final year Embroidery students was never going to be an easy task. But twenty-one hours later I’d photographed of over eighty different pieces of art during a ruthlessly demanding time scale. Working fastidiously in a make-shift studio with three high-powered flash units, we had a conveyor…
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Hot & cold metal workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
No one warned me that there’d be shards of white hot metal flying towards my camera lens when I was asked to photograph the ‘Hot and cold metal’ workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Not that I’m complaining though, using a few creative tricks these micro-explosions soon became an ally as the photos show. The ‘workshop’…
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Bronze casting workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
I can honestly say that this is the first weekend I’ve spent in close proximity to molten metal. And by close I mean hair singeingly close – so much so I’m sure I picked up a tan at the four day Bronze Casting workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I was asked to photograph the final…