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Top Image
“Wish You Were Here” created in response to an Amersham Beyond challenge to recreate a Pink Floyd album cover – my spin: use Magritte-style self-portraits in Canary Wharf, fire from my living room
Other Images
“Son of Man in Drizzle”
My reinterpretation of Magritte’s most famous painting. Man, apple and wall were a single straight shot (more or less, and the backward left elbow, obviously not)
Ideally needs an apple with leaves
Light rain whilst shooting, hence title
“Lady and the Poet”
Shot in Brick Lane, London. The poet was working in front of the bookshop, the woman, I assume a tourist, was just walking by. So I asked them to pose
“The Dogfather”
Entered to the Stoke Poges Photographic Club’s “Composites” competition; did not do well against some spectacular entries by other members of the club
“The Pleasure Principle”
A reinterpretation of Magritte’s portrait of his English patron, Edward James, which was also used for Gary Numan’s 1974 album of the same name
“Dead Vlei” my take on the famous Namibian scene – dead valley – dead trees do not decompose due to a lack of moisture
“Dead Vlei Dunescape”
“Sand Storm in the Namib Desert”
“Leopard in Cover”
“Etosha Salt Pan” – a sense of the infinite with a nod to Hiroshi Sugimoto – currently my favourite image, would look great printed really large
Distinctions
I have a structure for a potential Fellowship panel based on my Magritte style self portraits. I need to:
- contact the Applied Group, perhaps via Dave Manning of APS who recently gained his Associateship in Applied Photography, to see if my panel might be suitable for this category
- there are a number of images that need reshooting, e.g., Son of Man (above) needs an apple with leaves
I possibly have enough dune photos from Namibia to make a Landscape panel
New Artists
31st March two Belgian surrealist artists:
- Paul Delvaux – a contemporary of René Magritte – painted the same woman in many situations, e.g., the 1944 “Sleeping Venus”
- Marcel Marien – a friend and protégé of Magritte and one of the first surrealist photographers
24th April at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford
- Maggi Hambling – Portrait of Francis Bacon – absolutely fascinating
- Desmond Morris – although I had been reading his book “The Lives of the Surrealist” this was the first time I had seen one of his paintings – broadly in the same, biomorphic surrealist, style as Yves Tanguy
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