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Tomorrow night sees the opening of the new solo show by Birmingham based photographer Jonathan Shaw at New Art Gallery Walsall.
Exhibition Visualisation at Walsall, UK
Jonathan’s unique photographic images capture motion using hand modified cameras with amazing results.
By the looks of the info on his website, we can expect huge reproductions on the gallery walls.
I first met Jonathan when I started my degree in Bristol. Seeing his works (and cameras) develop over the years has been a real treat – from the early black and white shots of Will on his BMX at Bedminster skate park (moving so fast he ended up looking like a carrier bag floating in the wind) to these large scale colour images, some with obvious distortions and some very, very subtle.
Gallery 13, 10th August 2002, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 2003
It’s really great to see his hard (and brilliant) work now being rewarded with a solo show in such a prestigious venue as New Art Gallery Walsall.
The exhibition runs from 10th July – 6th September 2009 and a new publication will accompany the show.
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Wow! I remember being on my foundation at BIAd gosta green and being taken by photography tutor to go and see the BMAg piece. He told us all about the work and how he triggered the camera to run at the same speed that the film did to get the continuous projection. He then scanned it in and the file was a (then) whopping 5GB!! Great photographer, great work all round. Good find Mark!
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