Author: Andrew Mason

Hui is a keen photography enthusiast. His photos capture through his journeys and surroundings to deliver expressions and impressions. The photos present a unique view of wonders. Whilst the photos can be found through different forms of basic elements, they bring you breathtaking and stunning discoveries. The colours, lives, shapes, appearances and activities consist of any wonder you may dream of.

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My name is Andrew Dare and I started my photographic journey back in 2018 when I suddenly realised my kids were all grown up and I needed a hobby so I wouldn’t drive my wife crazy all the time.
I photograph a lot of b&w architecture plus of late I’ve started a new creative journey reinmagining my own images to create original works of art unique to me and my vision for them .
I hope you enjoy them also .
This all started by chance as I was browsing through Instagram and came across another artist who was creating images in a very different and unique way. I approached her and she showed me how it was done and provided my with the knowledge and the tools to start my own voyage of discovery and creativity.

I am a 71-year-old photographer who has been taking pictures for over 60 years, starting with Kodak ‘Brownies’ in the 1950s. I progressed through various 35mm cameras (including my beloved Olympus OM1N), to digital photography.

In the last 17 years I have become a committed user of Nikon DSLR kit and lenses. I am a member of the RPS and the Nikon Owners Club. Recently I have gone back to film photography using both my 35mm Olympus and a medium format Yashica Mat-124G.

Photography allows me to discover, explore, create and record images that will excite and please both myself and the viewer, including street, landscape and abstract. It is one of the most accessible mediums through which we can express our creative instincts.

I’m a London-based portrait photographer, working on a personal project to raise money for Ukrainian refugees by offering portrait sittings in return for charity donations. All of my work in the show is for sale, with 100% of the proceeds going to refugee charities.

I first started using a camera when I was at school, way back in the film days. Although my kids might think otherwise, it wasn’t just B&W film – colour had been invented! I picked up the hobby again during the Covid lockdown – initially doing still life at home, but then starting portraiture once the world started getting back to normal.

I am a semi-Londoner now as I live half the year in rural France so my life (and my photography) is a mix of the urban and the rural.
Like most people these days I carry a camera with me all the time and I enjoy the challenge of finding interesting images wherever I happen to find myself.
The more you look, the more you see.

The images presented here are from a trip to Vietnam in early 2020.

You can see more of my work at www.goldhawkimages.com

Michael Edema Leary-Owhin was born in Manchester and has lived in Brixton, London for 25 years. His Nigerian-British heritage informs his amateur photography. His fascination with wildlife photography began in 2011 while on an Orca (Killer Whale) sailing trip in and around the Johnstone Straight, British Colombia, Canada. Michael enjoys photographing all wildlife including: mammal, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects. Michael is in awe of wildlife, especially the large mammals he’s photographed in: Africa, India and South and North America, Europe and the UK. Michael only photographs animals in their wild state, so is reliant on nature for key compositional elements such as: subject, lighting, background and foreground. On photographic safari, the day usually starts with a cup of hot, strong coffee in a tent or safari lodge, in the cold and blackness before dawn.

Asim is a fine art photographer, capturing life from a perspective normally unseen.

Artworks range from portraits, landscapes, cityscapes and lately an emphasis on aerial photography.

His goal with photography is to create a striking image that evokes emotion in the viewer, whether the subject is something ordinary or spectacular

We can often bypass the beauty of everyday life and let the artistry of our surroundings slip us by, but by capturing them from a different perspective we can highlight that there is beauty in everything.

In this exhibition, Mark presents his debut photography series Emergence And Disappearance, “where the past & present overlap”
Emergence & Disappearance is a collection highlighting the passion
Mark feels about the constant change in architecture and the
struggle to capture everything old with history and charm before it is
replaced with all new glass faceless boxes and/or seen their
character changed via a repurposed use.
His goal is to show how he interprets the constant overlap of where
old & new collide within a series of images.
Mark bought his first camera whilst working out in Hong Kong in
2011, It was a Leica DLux 5 and so started his journey into all
things colour on the amazing streets in and around where he
worked and lived. As his experience grew, and the desire to shoot
quicker and images with more depth of field he bought a Fuji Xpro 1
Fast forward to today and Mark has a Post Grad Diploma in
Photography and shoots with both his Fuji XT3 and Fuji X100V.
Mark’s first photography books covered the work of William
Eggleston and Martin Parr and it was their style that inspired him to
just have a go and shoot anywhere and everywhere. But the work
of Robert Frank, Don McCullin, and Peter Turnley, influenced him to
shoot in a more storytelling, documentary style, to shoot images
that ask questions
If Mark is not travelling or working with numerous not for profit
organisations, you can usually find him in Manchester or Liverpool
where he spends his time working on his documentary and street
photography projects or capturing the amazing street art for his next
Zine

My photographic process entails the solitary exploration of unnoticed, out-of-the-way places. I experiment with limited light and color to encapsulate feelings of being adrift, studying a peacefulness within myself that is tainted by a background sense of disquiet.

I want the viewer to see the simple beauty of unremarked places, feeling the stillness and, perhaps, the unease.

Whilst seeking out these locations I am also drawn to the natural world on a macro scale, creating visually simple but absorbing images through high contrast tones and muted colours. I use contrast to amplify the subject through light and form, playing with depth to focus on precise elements, leaving much to the imagination of the viewer.

“I’ve not been everywhere yet but it’s on my list”…

Energised and enthusiastic for travel and new experiences I have begun the journey to see the world differently, full of colour and vibrancy, interesting faces and personalities, places and cars, cultures and urban jungle all recurring themes running through my work.

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