Author: Andrew Mason

Artfull Frame have selected 17 photographers from around the world who will be on display in room 5 of the London Photo Show.

After studying Fine Art at college, I switched to photography after a 5 year hiatus and did my degree at The London College of Printing in the 1980’s. I worked commercially for the next 15 years before becoming a Forensic Audio Visual Practitioner.
Throughout all this time I have self funded and exhibited personal work, developed projects for self expression and explored my own sense of creative validity. In recent years I run photography groups, including teaching and workshop events and this remains an ongoing interest.
The three prints here are from a body of work loosely titled ‘The Edge of the World’ and are from an exploration of the Dungeness Spit coastline. This work has been in progress for 7 years and is still gestating.

Maurizio Cecchini is an Italian London based photographer whose work in worldwide locations has produced striking and revealing landscape photographs set in Asia, The Americas and Europe.
Maurizio has recently returned from exhibiting his work in Italy where his series of photographs around Traditional Fairy Tales and Religious subjects references classical painting in its composition.
However set in a contemporary context they subvert expectation.
Familiar narratives are taken into a disonant satirical realm that is beguiling, they are beautiful to look at, but simultaneously robust, challenging and politically controversial.
They challenge the viewers comfortable accepted norms.
Maternity Man
Religious overtones, Gabriel’s wings are of no help in this situation, they have to be ripped out ,like the birth, it will be brutal, ripping, grasping holwling, what horror is before us?
Some may say, since the beginning of time every childbearing woman has wanted men to experience the painful reality of childbirth to prove they are ultimately the stronger sex , but what if, and are they equipped? It’s a worrying assault on every level, but fascinating, and greedily we want more, to be there watching, and listening we can’t be anything but completely drawn in to this scenario, even to imagining the biology of how it could happen ? what is going on down there?
Fairy Tales:
Beauty and the Beast.
Dramatic, theatrical, bold, bright . Two Beautiful men, two handsome beasts, sexy silky dress on a muscle toned body tightly wrapped around in powerful masculinity, the lure of temptation, the desperation of the underbeast, come in and join the feast, but leave the door open…
Maleficent and Alice in Wonderland
How often had we blamed Walt Disney for dipping our toes into the unknown.. if only we had known that there is no such thing as a fairy tale handsome prince.
There are just the deadly sins in this world
Lust, jealously, envy, gluttony and avarice…
Fairy tales are warning to the young, who absolutely ignore them, and so they should…
Maleficent is a long winding affair, with no handsome prince or beautiful young princess, maybe its kicking back at Disney or maybe it’s showing the reality of life? The artist , pushes and pulls against realty and constraint and boundaries, so we are still left questioning.
It does make one thing clear, the Maleficent is sexy, dangerous and enticing regardless of gender
Alas poor Alice, the table is buckling under the food and drinks, the charming, amazing, wonderful and wretched friends circle her like vultures around a antelope who thinks its all a terribly funny game, but where is she, who are these strange creatures at her tea party?
“Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola”.. Blur

Marina studied photography at Central Saint Martins. Marina participated in photo exhibitions in New York, London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Wales and Cambridge University.
She has received numerous awards including four times the Citi Arts Club ‘People Choice Photo Award’ and the ‘Julia Margaret Cameron’ distinction. Her work was included in the Barcelona Biennial of Fine Arts & Photography. Through her Arctic whales photography,
Marina collaborated with the ‘Greenland Institute of Natural Resources’ to assist with their research. Her work was selected for inclusion in three photography books published in the US. Marina’s photos form part of private collections and are exhibited in
villas, financial institutions as well as at the University of Warwick. Marina published five photography books covering Kenya, Namibia, the climate change impact on Greenland and Antarctica, as well as a black and white book ‘Europe & Asia’. Her books form
part of University Libraries. She has recently launched her own clothing and accessories brand using her photography work as a design base.

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I am an Italian-born traveller who has been passionate about photography for many years. In 2018 I decided to quit my finance job and bought a one-way ticket to South East Asia. I travelled alone which meant I organised everything myself, often with a low budget as I alternated work and travel. That trip lasted a year in which I visited 13 different countries. I began my adventure in Myanmar, a state that I explored a second time a few months later.

The second time I decided to focus myself on something even more exciting, discovering some of the 135 different tribes that Myanmar offered like long neck women, Ann tribe, Akhu, women with face tattoos etc. They live in the most remote areas of the country; they are poor and they speak a local dialect very different from Burmese. My way of communicating was not verbal but with hand gestures, facial expressions, body movement and posture. It was a bit of fun. This was one of the wonderful experience in my life.

Creative industries veteran still wandering and wondering, exploring the world and its people via visual media in encounters with strangers.

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John Bineham has been taking photograph’s for around 4 years now and takes inspiration from all life & the wonders it allows us to see. He has started to develop his work into photo art, manipulating photographs into unusual images, the photograph’s John has on show at this exhibition have been developed from his flora range of pictures.

You can see more on his Artfinder page.

Ross McGree became hooked on photography at the age of 13 when he was introduced to the chemical process of developing a B&W image, that took him into the professional field of both photography and film making.

Over the years Ross has worked his way through every aspect of photography and video production, from B&W and colour film processing, hand and machine printing to studio, still life and advertising.

In his 20’s Rossmann took a BA degree in photography specialising in audio visual production, a technology in its infancy at the time where multiple slide and film projectors were used to create ultra-wide panoramic projection akin to a movie but created using hundreds of still images mixed with film projection, lighting, surround sound and other special effects.

I have a passion for taking photos and now developing my photography into a new creative style.

At the London Photo Show, I am showing part of my project Vol 1 London.

Portfolio Vol 1 London is based on the City of London in the UK which is the first in the series. The city has given me a totally different way of looking at it and developed a new style that gives abstract images that are very unique.

The more modern buildings and structures you will see in London every day. The method I have used on them has given me a totally different style to my images with a unique abstract and graphic look to my artwork.