From this weeks webinar – suggested photographers
Fay Godwin
I was aware of Fay Godwin’s work – and was interested to see that she was shooting on a Hasselblad as I am for my Mounds work – by coincidence.
Fay Godwin’s work fails within the tradition of British landscape photography commencing with Roger Fenton and continuing through Bill Brandt in its concern with time and place, whether the ancient Drovers’ Roads of Wales, the bleak moor lands of Yorkshire, the settled domesticity of Dorset or the Whisky Roads of Scotland. Her images evince a readiness to respond to the flow of life, to embrace some measure of the accidental effects of light and atmosphere. In incorporating elements of both fact and metaphor, Godwin’s work forms one of the most complete poetic documents of the British landscape.
Godwin’s involvement with photography stemmed from the hobby of photographing her children which led in the early 1970s to commissioned portraits of poets and writers. Her interest in landscape was stimulated by her love of walking. She subsequently so-authored many essays, guide-books and poems (with writers such as Ted Hughes, John Fowles and Alan Sillitoe) on the theme of British landscape.
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/fay-godwin-cameras-on-loan-from-the-british-library/
South Bank Show. 1986. Fay Godwin
National Science and Media Museum. 2010. Fay Godwin photography exhibition ‘Land Revisited’
Ray Metah
Made work during lockdown – making work in the early morning and late afternoon light – referred to ‘between dog and wolf’ in the webinar.
Paul Hill
http://www.hillonphotography.co.uk/
Paul founded The Photographers Place – the UK’s first residential photography workshop – at his Peak District home. Paul was the first art photographer to receive an MBE for services to photography and the first professor of photographic practice within a British university.
Although I had heard of Paul Hill – I didn’t know that much about him – but discovered this really interesting You Tube video of a presentation he made in 2019.
‘when you make pictures you are in the moment, rather than at a particular place and where I photograph is where I am as well as who I am’ Paul Hill
This resonated with me in relation to my walks and observations.
Figures
Figure. 1. Roy METHA. 2020. Beehive. http://www.roymehta.com/ [online]. Available at http://roymehta.com/projects/lockdown.aspx [Accessed 10 September 2020].
Figure. 2. Roy METHA, 2020. untitled. http://www.roymehta.com/ [online]. Available at http://roymehta.com/projects/lockdown.aspx [Accessed 10 September 2020].
References
National Science and Media Museum. 2010. Fay Godwin cameras on loan from the British library [online]. Available at https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/fay-godwin-cameras-on-loan-from-the-british-library/ [accessed 10 September 2020].
National Science and Media Museum. 2010. Fay Godwin photography exhibition ‘Land Revisited’ Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpxQvhmgWpg&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=NationalScienceandMediaMuseum [Accessed 10 September 2020].
On Landscape. 2019. Paul Hill – Landscape Photography Is Just Not About The Land – or Photography. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt3_nmt-LfI&ab_channel=OnLandscape [Accessed 10 September 2020].
South Bank Show. 1986. Fay Godwin [TV Documentary]. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJR_UJnry8s&ab_channel=SteveHaskett [Accessed 10 September 2020].
Andy Fell CRJ 