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LUCY JENNER I see Asia as a beautiful collage of religions, customs, cultures, landscapes, languages and races. My work celebrates these diversities. My eyes find beauty in the everyday objects that I photograph, be it a tiny detail of a carving on an old shabby door or the accidental way that shoes left on the floor form a pattern. I describe each piece as a ‘woven photograph’ made out of textures and colours, often in an abstracted form, which when placed next to each other create a whole image. I studied weaving and ceramics at Art College and these works especially take inspiration from my methods of researching colours and texture for my weaves. There are 16 pieces in total in my collection entitled Asian Wonder and I have chosen 3 to be exhibited here. Lenses is my first time at curating an exhibition. All the artists featured are people I know and like. I currently work in Southampton as Education Officer for Art Asia. |
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BENJAMIN DEE-SHAPLAND dee-shapland.co.uk I grew up in St Ives, Cornwall, where I developed an affinity with the landscape. I pursued photography since school and completed BA (Hons) Photography at Bournemouth. I now live in Winchester with my lovely wife and our four children. |
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MURRAY FREESTONE murrayfreestone.com I live in Southampton and currently work as a semi professional photographer. I have no formal training and have instead chosen to learn from experience. This process started in my early twenties whilst away travelling. Having struggled through formal educational, I always felt there was a vocation that would capture my imagination. Shortly before heading off to Australian and New Zealand for a couple of years, I spent my remaining spending money on a digital camera. This was the spark that ignited my passion for photography and motivated me to travel the world with my camera. The images on display are two favourites from thousands of special moments captured on this journey. I specialise in capturing real moments that tell a story.... Most of my current work involves wedding and events photography. |
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HELEN CHAPMAN Opportunities to be in unusual or unfamiliar places excite me to take pictures. Details and moments that would otherwise be lost are caught and it pleases me to see them. As novel as these experiences were for me, these events in these places are pretty normal for most people in the pictures. I have seen First Holy Communions before. However, I have never before seen it in such a light, with an odd mix of solemn reverence and cheap party decorations and the little girls and boys dressing up as if they were angels and saints: symbolising pure white, adorned with veils and sashes. It was New Zealand and the first time I had been to a large scale sheep shearing event. I was amazed with all the workings and organising that went into this spectacle. How very ‘of the countryside’ I remember thinking. The majority of them were working men showing off their very physical skills. The skills of the Open class shearers were something with which I was totally astounded. In these pictures you see the training sessions, competition heats and the quality judging of the sheared sheep. Penalty points were added to the overall time score if the sheep had any wool left on or had been cut. I am a practicing photographer, artist and teacher based in Wiltshire. |
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PAUL DAVISON pauldavisonphotography.com I am a travel photographer based in Winchester. Most of the images I take are environmental portraits. I’ve always found this genre of photography the most captivating. I generally try to take candid shots of people in their environment so the image has a natural feel to it. However, this is often impossible in many developing countries as it’s fairly common to find yourself surrounded by people wanting to see themselves on the camera LCD screen. It’s this interaction that makes this type of photography so rewarding and I’ve been incredibly lucky to meet some truly amazing and fascinating people in this way. |
