John Hughes "SNATCH" fotoutstilling

PRESSEMELDING:

Galleri Schaeffers Gate 5 har som mål å etablere en plattform hvor kunstnere fra Europa og Amerika møtes. Alle disse kunstnerne har sin egen unike versjon av virkeligheten. Galleriet ser fram til å presentere disse kunstnerne, deres uttrykksverdener som representerer nåtid, fortid og framtid, uttrykksformer som kan være romantiske så vel som ironiske og undergravende.

Nå har vi gleden av å presentere:

JOHN HUGHES “SNATCH”
foto utstilling 1.-11. mars 2012

kurert av Mark Steiner

torsdag - fredag kl.16-19, lørdag - søndag kl.13-16

John Hughes er en Oslo-basert britisk fotograf som har arbeidet i Norge i flere år.

Han har mye erfaring etter tretten år som fotograf og bilde reddaktør i nord-vest England.

"I work intuitively, looking for where the light falls away, waiting for moments of spontaneity. I know that the process is not exclusively mine and mine alone, but that I am an observer entering into the combined dialogue of elements generated between the subject and my own thinking and evolution."

NB! For alle som kjøper et bilde, vil John i tillegg ta og levere et portrettbilde for vedkommende!

Velkommen!

NETTSIDER:

http://www.johnhughes.no
http://www.krop.com/hughes


VIDERE INFORMASJON:

"In the days of film SLRs part of the final test at journalism college was to do six assignments on one roll of thirty-six. Another harder test was to have thirty seconds to study a photograph of a random person, and then spend the maximum of an hour from a fixed vantage point in a busy shopping street attempting to spot and photograph sharply the person you had seen in the photograph you were shown earlier. I believe these tests have merit and greater significance to how my photography has continued to develop over time. Apart from improving the technical and economic aspects of the photographer these tests force the photographer to make shrewd judgments.

By keeping these factors prescient and with perseverance and a dash of lady luck, eventually other intuitive and playful layers should develop in the photographer. For example, deciding where to stand before a subject, whether or when to move, whether to change lens, whether to stand back, look and listen, or to just momentarily switch away from what you were focusing on, as was the case in the photograph called ‘Cigarette Boy’, which was actually taken during a fashion shoot. All the photographs I have selected for exhibition here were in a sense ‘snatched’ as the press industry slang
term implies, and have their foundations built upon those early tests as a photographer. However, unlike the test taken in a busy shopping street, I had no idea what the location or subject of these photographs was going to be.

And so I suppose the not knowing what is round the corner is the magic of
photography."

- John Hughes, Oslo, februar 2012


Bio
født: Colwyn Bay, North Wales, UK 1970

Utdannelse:
1999-2002 Manchester Metropolitan University MA Creative Writing 2 (i)
1990-1993 The University of the West of England BA (Hons) Humanities 2 (i)


Arbeid:
oktober 1994 til juni 2004: senior fotograf/bilde redaktør, The Lancashire Evening Post, Storbrittania
juli 2005 til nå: freelance fotograf i Oslo


Utstillinger:
juni 2010 ’HUGE!’ utstilling, ZOOT design bureau, Oslo