Author: Andrew Mason

I am a photographer who works across a range of subjects from landscapes to abstracts. I am inspired by colour, space and stories as much as places or people. So, my images tell the story of a place or an event and capture its essential visual elements and character. I am as inspired by painters (Turner, Rothko or Heron) as by photographers or locations, and seek to distil through palette and texture the essence of a scene.
My work includes landscapes from London to California, India to the Outer Hebrides, wild places in low light, black and white studies and everyday abstract images. I was awarded an ARPS Distinction for a collection of luminous images of London’s South Bank which are on show in this exhibition. Recently I have been exploring more abstract and painterly approaches using intentional camera movement and these works feature in this show. I feel like I have moved through increasingly abstract and dynamic moods as I have responded to recent events.
I use a mirrorless digital camera and my Dad’s old Nikon Film SLR, but also very often my iPhone to capture images as I see them.

Images are a way of life for me – taking them, studying them, glorying in photographs done right.

For me, an image is a meditation.
On beauty, on the gift that is life, on love and on loss.

A chance to humbly share one of the panoply of emotions that make us human.

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I was born in 1983 in Kielce, Poland.

I started my journey with digital cameras late. I bought the first one in 2011 when I was on a work and travel trip in Canada. I did not have any experience then at all. I used the camera for the trip, then hid it in a corner.

In 2020 I started to do some cleaning and found my old camera again. I studied the work of great street photographers. I went into Central London and I wanted to create a document about the situation we were living through at the time. This was my second project, and I decided to turn it into a book.

My photography reflects my love of colour, mood and metaphor. I especially enjoy working with images of street art and graffiti, giving an urban edge to some of my work. My photography sometimes focusses on more delicate subjects where I work with botanical imagery combined with painterly textures. For many years, I created fine art conceptual photographic imagery for the book cover market, building a large portfolio of creative photography for my agent. Working within this industry allowed me to grow creatively and be experimental with my photography. My photography has now sold all over the world and continues to do so for book covers ranging from for everything from murder mysteries to love stories.

Art dealer..Exhibitions at the London Photo Show since 2016

My last trip was in Ladakh, an Indian state in the Himalayas.

I met a few people from some remote valleys…

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I am an aerial and abstract photographer and artist.

My objective is to tell a story, to look at the world in a different way, to reveal the subconscious, the seen but unseen.

Within my photographs there exists a converging of two scales: the physical world, things in themselves as they are and the interior world, lying hidden within all things.

A synchronism of the external and the everyday.

My subconscious finding oxygen.

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I’m an amateur photographer based in Hackney, London.

I’m interested in capturing the essence of the people I photograph and also using photography to tell the story of the society in which we live and what that means to those around us.

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Instagram: @joannesegars

Conrad Hechter was born in South Africa but spent early formative childhood years in the south of England. On his return to South Africa, his lived teenage experience was a complex world of diverse and conflicting beliefs which culminated in the study of English and Geography at the intellectual heart of Afrikaner identity, Stellenbosch University. After teaching English Literature in Cape Town and quickly becoming frustrated and disillusioned by the political, social, and educational systems, he left in 1984 to both broaden his personal horizons and to try to gain perspective on the dysfunctional South African situation.

All the photographs in my display have been taken with a Nikon FM2n 35 mm camera which I bought used in 2015 for £180. The six pictures are part of a series I started in 2015 and are simply my view of London.
There is very little editing and I try and Ieave a lot of the fundamental elements as they are and let the different types of film display their own properties.

The brief I set myself for these shots was to try to capture the small moments that matter but are easily hidden in a big city and also make them all connect up as a series somehow, as if they were a long paragraph in a book that had a coherent theme.

My very first memories of my developing interest in photography began at an early age when I became a proud owner of a Kodak Brownie Cresta roll film camera, taking just 12 black & white exposures 2″ X 2″ in size. I remember looking in amazement at my first prints, bringing back vivid memories of where I had been just a week or so earlier!
I had no idea then, not only on how seriously my newly developing and fascinating interest in photography was destined to lead me as my life progressed, but also on how photography itself would progress in the coming years.
By the time I reached my late teenage years, I started experimenting with developing and printing my own black & white films and prints. I did not have the luxury of a darkroom, so had to compromise by blacking out the bathroom in my parents’ house for a few years until I purchased my own house some years later and was able to build my own darkroom in a spare bedroom, which I could use on a permanent basis.. This was equipped with a contact printer for negative sized prints, an enlarger, red safe light, processing dishes etc. For many years I was then able to process my own black & white films and prints, before later moving on to colour processing which was a lot more complicated and time consuming.
My most ambitious project at the time was to print from 35mm sized negatives, 2 sepia effect prints of Covent Garden Market, sized 1.3mtr x 0.94mtr, and 1 sepia effect print of Albert Bridge, Chelsea, size 0.88mtr x 0.70mtr. All 3 prints were printed onto large rolls of photographic paper!
Following the arrival of digital photography, my darkroom equipment slowly became redundant, but I still have it stored in my loft…just in case!
I soon found myself appreciating the profound advantages of digital photography, with images instantly available to view and no longer being limited to 36 images on a roll film.
In recent years, as a scenic photographer I have concentrated on canal and river photography. I am a member of the Canal & River Trust, the Huddersfield Canal Society, and have also held many exhibitions to raise funds for charitable organisations, with my next one planned for Southend On Sea in April 2023.
My progression into Twilight Photography began one winter’s evening in 2009, whilst strolling along the London Southbank with my Nikon camera in hand. I spontaneously stopped to take a twilight shot over the Thames towards St Paul’s Cathedral and the City of London beyond. This created a lot of interest, so some years later I decided to progress along the river in both directions, specializing in capturing the beautiful illuminated River Thames at dusk. In early 2020, I decided to extend my coverage further, not knowing that Lockdown due to COVID, would seriously delay my progress, but I was able to use the time in producing my first music backed DVD covering the Thames at twilight between Albert Bridge, Chelsea and Tower Bridge, which has been much admired. I am now extending my coverage further from Windsor in the west to Greenwich and the Thames Barrier in the east.
I am delighted to be able to participate in the London Photo Show 2022.
Frank Carter.