Publications to date

One of the scarier aspects of SYP is the fundamental idea of showing your work to strangers. So I thought it would be good for my confidence to revisit what I have already achieved in this regard. When I itemise it I realise that I have published or displayed more of my work than I thought. Much of it is not directly related to my OCA work, although I consider it all useful experience.

In timeline order:

• April 2015: “Places & People”
  • A month-long solo exhibition of 20 black-and-white prints from miscellaneous OCA and personal projects, in the function room the Sun Inn, Pickering
  • From memory I sold two or three prints

• April 2016: “It’s a Colourful Life”
  • I was asked back for another month-long solo exhibition, this time featuring 20 colour prints from miscellaneous OCA and personal projects, at the Sun
  • This time I sold 10 of the framed prints

• April 2017: “Paw Prints“:
  • Another month-long exhibition at the Sun but this time a series of commissioned portraits of dogs owned by local people
  • This actually led to me setting up a pet portraiture business for the following few years, but that is another story…

• February 2018: “In Search of Lost Gloves”
  • A (very) early version of BoW Assignment 3 was made into a handmade book for the purposes of entering into a local book fair in York, organised by a photography collective called Lens Think Yorkshire and a creative organisation called Print Stuff
  • The book was selected for inclusion and presented in the book fair for the duration of the event (a month)

• April 2018: “In Search of Lost Gloves”
  • Off the back of the book fair I was invited to publish an edit of BoW Assignment 3 as a guest blog post on a curated photography blog Fable & Folk
  • I was also interviewed about the work

• May 2018: “Memory Waves”
  • A popup exhibition of portraits from my BoW Assignment 2, at the Moorside Rooms, Kirkbymoorside
  • For one day only as part of a Dementia Action Week
  • Same set displayed for a second pop-up exhibition in August of same year as part of a local singing event

• July 2018: “Canine Headshots”
  • A mini-exhibition (one week, six images) at Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton
  • As part of their ‘Dog Week’ programme of events

• June 2019: “Two Kinds of People?”
  • I submitted a project I did back in 2017 as part of the Level 2 Documentary course to an open call organised by the photography website/zine Photograd, themed around Brexit
  • I was selected for inclusion, featured on their website and interviewed about the work

• July 2019: “Brand New Day”
  • Collaborative photobook on a given theme
  • Six of my abstract images were included alongside the work of five other photographers
  • One of my images was selected for the front cover

• March 2020: “Two Kinds of People?” digital archive
  • The work, as seen on the Photograd site mentioned above, was selected to be included in the Harvard College Library digital archive on Brexit

[awaiting link / screenshot ]

• July 2020: “Prom Scene”
  • A single image I took in January 2020, unrelated to my OCA body of work, was submitted to a Feature Shoot / The Print Swap open call, and was selected for inclusion
  • The selection includes the image being exhibited at a one-day exhibition at the BBA Circle Gallery in Berlin in July 2020 (NB this may yet be postponed due other Covid-19 pandemic)

 

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So apparently I have published / exhibited more work than I thought!

This is encouraging; it makes the idea of building a publication or exhibition around my BoW project less daunting.