Lately I have been thinking about the importance of motif in our photographs, and this has been becoming ever clearer as I do more and more creativity and design workshops. I still remember a conversation, albeit a brief one, which I had some years ago, with Craig Potton, the photographer and publisher. I hasten to [...]
An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself… (an Expressionist rejects) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures… Antonín Matějček (1910) -Czech art historian In the sense that these pictures reflect the individual ego of their creator, they are expressionistic -Peter C Bunnell All stories begin somewhere. This particular one began one warm [...]
Impressionism has much to answer for. Thank goodness. In April 1874, a relatively unknown painter called Claude Monet took part in an exhibition held at the studio of the photographer Nadar. One of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise, was so unlike anything the art critic, one Louis Leroy, had ever seen, that he was stuck for [...]
Kia ora tatou: The books have landed. Out There South is in the country. They will be in our hot and itching hands later this week (we hope). We have two launches planned so far for the South Island: The first will be at the Select Braemar Lodge in Hanmer Springs on August 30 form [...]
Warning: Opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the writer. But they might be…. Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus. -David Hockney You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the [...]
Kia ora tatou: I saw this image at Wedderburn, when Sue ( who has done a number of my workshops) and I were discussing the direction her work was taking . She is in her final year of a degree majoring in photography at UniTec. We talked about the work and I asked if she [...]
