Glastonbury

Visited two photographic exhibitions yesterday, both about Glastonbury festival - which has its 40th anniversary this year - and each had a very different approach. Liam Bailey's Glastonbury:40 years is at the Print Space Gallery (until May 4th) at Kingsland Street, in London, takes a more documentary approach, looking at the festival goers with 16 * 20 inch atmospheric monochrome photos while Venetia Dearsden, in the Bookshop Gallery (at the National Portrait Gallery in London until September 26th) used an on site temporary studio for her larger giclee colour portraits of the performers (eg Lily Allen) as well as the people attending. Muddy boots and footprints are common to both exhibitions. 

Take a look at each - you'll see a very different - and equally valid - take on the same subject. Both have free entry.

St George

A Pageant of St George was held this morning in the City of London - apparently for the 1st time in 425 years.  As I like photographing these types of events, went along with camera(s) to do just that.  I'd bought some black & white film (Delta) for another event a few months back, but never used it then, so I today used both traditional film and digital.

Managed to catch the pageant outside St Pauls, had to jostle for a better position amongst the crowds in the warm spring sunshine. Whilst it's good to have the sunshine and blue skies, the light was a little harsh - resulting in some squinting eyes in some of my photos.Used a 36 exposure roll of Delta, which is now back in my fridge, awaiting developing. Some day, when I get around to it.

 

 I'll post some of my Black & White in due course ..... developing ..... scanning ..... a long as it doesnt involve a lot of time in a wet Dark Room.


One last thing for now -  I was a little disappointed not to see any dragons.

ARPS Panel

I've put the photos which made up my (successful) panel submission for Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society on to my web site. Here is a link to that site -

www.rogertowell.com

I've also included my Statement of Intent which was required for the submission.  The submission was in Visual Art and comprised 15 prints matted in 50cm by 40cm antique white mounts, presented in 3 rows of 5 pictures.

The photos were printed on Somerset Satin paper.