Marcus Davies Lecture

Grew up around art. Dad was an artist.
A-level photography. Foundation. Then Degree in Fine Art at Falmouth.

Started with documentary...

• American Football in UK - Gained confidence photographing people and interacting with subject
• Kids boxing. Gave prints back so he could keep coming and photographing
• Returned to events

After graduating looked for new things to photograph. Took an accidental image of the ground and shadows and liked it so started doing it on purpose.Images looked graphic.
Removed midtones ;eaving black, white and shape.
Merjing negs as well as straight photographs.

Travelled about taking photos. Got a grant from the arts council and photographed bull fighting in Spain. Donated an image to VandA

Moved on to tryptiches and dyptiches of animals (stuffed so they wouldn't run about)

Coloured gels and leaves on a lightbox. Being sold by a German Gallery.

Images got very minimalist so went back to documentary for a while. Football fans!

Working on an autism project without photographing his son who has autism... Shapes, train lines. Made track tiles. possibly making into a game.

I found his work really interesting, mainly the minimalist black and white ones.

Ian Macel Lecture

I found the Ian Macel lecture very interesting and thought he interacted really well. Every picture he showed us seemed to have a story behind it. His early images were really good and had good compositiona nd lighting even though he was self taught which I think comes from his background in graphics. I like how he used photography like a diary.