Patrick Keiller London

London is a film by the British director Patrick Keiller. London cronicles a year in the life of the city (1992), from the eyes of the unseen protagonist Robinson. The film, narrated by Paul Scofield, recounts the actions of Robinson and is shot almost as a mosaic of moments describing various scenes of life in London which coincide with the narration.

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BFI review of the film.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/497617/

Interview with Patrick Keiller
http://www.kamera.co.uk/interviews/a_quick_chat_with_patrick_keiller.php

Transition Exhibition

I recently took part in an exhibition with a group of students with work based around the theme of isolation. I chose to show a series of my images taken in North Greenwich, arranging them as a photo-essay. 

Dali

"The photographic lens can caress the cold smoothness of white lavatories; pursue the drowsy lassitude of aquariums; analyze the most subtle articulations of electrical appliances with all the unreal precision of its own magic. In painting, on the contrary, if one wishes to paint a jellyfish, it is still absolutely necessary for him to depict a guitar or a harlequin playing the clarinet."

Salvador Dali – “La fotographia, pura creacio de l’esperit” (photography, pure creation of the spirit!). l’almic de les arts September 30, 1927 

Another grey day in North Greenwich

A New Direction

In a departure from my previous work in which I have explored the refuse and objects that have been left behind by people during their day to day lives I have now begun to look at areas of undeveloped landscapes and there surroundings. The main areas that I been looking are two fenced off undeveloped plots of land in North Greenwich. I chose to focus on this area because of the varying developments around the undeveloped land, industrial buildings, newly built modern housing, hotels and garden centres. 

While exploring this area I have focused on both the boundaries and edges of the plots of land, the surrounding sites and on textures.  

North Greenwich

"I am not very fond of Color"- Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida 

Devendra Banhart

An excellent mix of art and music.

Devendra Banhart ~ Baby from Ron Winter on Vimeo.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1575990/devendra-banhart-art-and-music

Idris Khan - Every... Bernd and Hilla Becher

Ghostly images created by the British artist who's work centres around superimposing iconic images or texts one on top of the other to create a single image; in this case those of the German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher. For me the appeal of these images is the way that they take on a whole new form to those of the original Becher images and how they almost seem to be taken away from being photographs, becoming pieces which resemble rough sketches or paintings.   

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"Idris Khan’s Every... Bernd And Hilla Becher... series appropriates the Bechers’ imagery and compiles their collections into single super-images. In this piece, multiple images of American-style gabled houses are digitally layered and super-imposed giving the effect of an impressionistic drawing or blurred film still. The structures in the Bechers’ original photographs are almost identical, though in Khan’s hands the images’ contrast and opacity is adjusted to ensure each layer can be seen and has presence. Though Khan works in mechanised media and his images are of industrial subjects, their effect is of a soft ethereal energy. They exude a transfixing spiritual quality in their densely compacted details and ghostly outlines. ...Prison Type Gasholders conveys a sense of time depicted in motion, as if transporting the old building, in its obsolete black and white format, into the extreme future."

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/idris_khan.htm