This is James Barrow who introduced the Photospace team to the ancient art of Japanese Taiko Drumming which he teaches workshops in.
Find out more at his site here
Dec 05 2009
Birmingham’s People 47 – Barrow
Dec 05 2009
Birmingham’s People 46 – Nitesh Scherchan
Nitesh was a charming guy who provided a real outsiders view of Birmingham – see his great video interview below
Nitesh Sherchman from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.
Dec 05 2009
Birminghams People 45 – Mattu
And here’s one of our ‘spotlight’ images that we haven’t blogged yet, a fantastic vibrant picture taken by Jennifer Peel while I was on my lunch…
Dec 05 2009
Birminghams People 44 – Diana Perowne
Here at Birmingham Photospace we’ve been incredibly busy organising the exhibition, particularly the private view next week, so much so that we’ve rather fallen behind with our blog posts for which we apologise.
Here’s Diana, a really enthusiastic lady…
Birmingham’s People: Diana from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.
Nov 13 2009
Birmingham’s People – 40 (and 41 I suppose!) Jo and Heather
It’s been a while since I blogged about fellow contributors to Artsfest, so it was high time for another.
Jo and Heather were charming! They came in and explained that they had been working on another of the booths in the Visual Arts Village over the weekend, so I asked them to go away and bring back a prop to have their photo taken with. Happily they obliged!
I’m sure that it’s not a classically great composition for a portrait – but our photographer was patient with me and got the vase in. I’m very glad he did: I like the vase. I liked these ladies’ creativity. I like this portrait.
They spent some time with our talented volunteer videographers – thanks to the videographers for all their hard work over the weekend – they worked hard to get some really interesting pieces.
See what Jo and Heather had to say below
joandheather2 from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.
Nov 12 2009
Birmingham’s People 39 – The Enigma
I’m sure we must have taken this chap’s name – but for some reason in the moving 170 sets of portraits from cameras to laptops then onto the web this sitter’s name seems to have been lost.
I sort of like the fact that he’s anonymous. It means I can create a whole history for him in my mind. My abiding memory of this sitter is that our photographer, the wonderful Jennifer Peel asked him to smile with his mouth open, and he wouldn’t. He was conscious of his image – and was very clear about how he wanted to be shot.
Great photo. Great subject,
Nov 11 2009
Birmingham’s People 38 -The inimitable Patrick Wong
I’ve blogged about Patrick and his family before. I’m not going to make any apology for that – Patrick loved the camera, and as you can see, the camera loves him.
I’m told that the tattoos are actually temporary – and all his own designs. I’ll leave the rest to Patrick – check out his video below!
Birmingham’s People: Patrick from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.
Nov 09 2009
Birmingham’s People 36 -Rankin (no, not that Rankin)
Terrific photo, this one, I thought. I can say this because I’m not the photographer. When this lady told me her name (see above!) I gulped!
Rankin is, after all, one of Photospace’s heroes. He’s one of the most important photographers making portaits at the moment. Lots and lots of people have written about his work, and I’m not a great photography critic, so I’ll just tell you why I like his work so much.
Rankin for me can shoot an image that sums up a person completely and utterly. That is to say, he sums up what I believe to be true about public figures – captures their glamour, their charm and a bit of their mystique and persona. This would be impressive enough -but I think what sets Rankin apart is that he is at his best when he finds something new to say about his subjects through his photography – exposing vulnerability or awkwardness or another side to a person which he may have noticed (but we may not have done) .
Have a look through his portrait portfolio. Have a look at the Gilbert and George Portrait and the Bowie portrait – I hope you’ll see what I mean.
Anyway, back to this portrait. The reason I like it so much is because actually it does what Rankin’s portraits do. I don’t know this lady at all – but the image seems to capture what I believe to be true about her -that she’s stylish, charming and friendly – and that’s all we could ever want from a subject!
Oct 30 2009
Birmingham’s People 35 – Lihnguyen
These two couldn’t stop laughing for the whole time they were being photographed, we did a couple of straight portraits but this one stood out.
The best images all come when everybody involved is enjoying themselves!
Oct 28 2009
Birmingham’s People 34 – Burchell
This is Andrew who provided a real outsiders view on Birmingham, He’d been out of the country for fifteen years and his initial impressions of the ‘new’ Brum were not completely positive. Watch our interview with him in the video clip below. Birmingham’s People: Andrew from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.
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