Musings

Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2010

Dave — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:18:51 +0000

In another piece of great news my friend David Axelbank pointed out yesterday that I had won in the UK category of this year’s Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2010, which I’d managed to miss in my inbox! This is great news and I’m honoured to join a long list of friends from both previous years and this year who have also been winners in this great search for new talent.

Must say a congratulations to Adam Dean who is another of the ex-Dalian crowd, and Liz Hingley and Kurt Tong who I met at last year’s Rhubarb International Review and are both doing fantastic work. Also there are two photographers I know from my Newport days in the Honourable Mentions, Stephen Kelly who is an incredibly talented award winning documentary photographer and likewise Dominic Hawgood who is an amazing portrait photographer who has previously shown work in the National Portrait Gallery. Interestingly there are quite a few names familiar from last year’s Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed show at the Photographer’s Gallery that I was involved in so congratulations to all of them.

Portfolio Catalogue

Dave — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:03:59 +0000

I’m really pleased to announce that my work has been included in the latest issue of Portfolio Catalogue. This is amazing news for me. Back in about 1999 or 2000 my then tutor Dick Brownridge held up Portfolio as where to look for what is happening in contemporary photography so to have my own work featuring a decade later is an honour indeed. If you have never come across this title before, you really need to have a look. It’s subscription and also available from exclusive bookshops and galleries in London. The Photographer’s Gallery bookshop is the place I would go for it but don’t take your credit card -their range of books is fantastic and I can’t leave without spending more than i should!

The issue features work by some really great photographers alongside myself, notably Nadav Kander, Edward Burtynsky, Ed Kashi, Guy Tillim, IIan Godfrey, Teresa Eng, Dana Popa and essays by David Bate, Simon Baker, Francis Hodgson, Michael J Watts and Kobena Mercer.

To get the issue straight from Portfolio or to subscibe, visit their website. Issue #51 with my work is listed here

Telegraph

Dave — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:42:43 +0000

I know it’s been quiet here for a while now but over the past few months I’ve had some great success with the Thames Town work starting off with Lucy Davies of the Telegraph running the work as a feature in the Sunday Telegraph magazine, Seven on 28th February. It was an interesting edit actually which included a not seen before portrait I made of one of the security guards in his Buckingham palace inspired uniform.

Shutterspark

Dave — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:42:57 +0000

My Thames Town work is this week featured on the newly formed ShutterSpark website. Shutterspark was, “created to showcase the work of budding photographers to both the public and potential employers alike, shutterspark blog gives photography BA and MA graduates the best opportunity to promote their work.”

Please visit ShutterSpark now and have a look, there is some awesome work being displayed at the moment and if you graduated within the past few years, it is well worth submitting work of your own whilst the site is growing in popularity.

Thames Town II. 12"x12" Giclee Print. ©Dave Wyatt 2008

Online Colour Challenge

Dave — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:48:15 +0000

Came across this test for your colour vision on the X-rite site today -seen it before but thought I would post my results. Could do better but not horrible I suppose.

You can find the test on the X-rite website here

Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 09

Dave — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:39:53 +0000

Well I have had an interesting week of it with trips back and forth to the Photographer’s Gallery in London. “The reason?”, I hear you ask… Well I have been part of a group exhibition showcasing who they deemed the most interesting graduates from the past 12 months on British photographic courses (I know, my MA was in China but it was run through the University of Bolton). 23 of us showed work and it was a varied mix of styles. It was interesting to see the work I was doing in China in the light of what other courses had been producing, including Goldsmiths, the RCA and LCC, all courses I hold in high regard. Overall I am chuffed to bits to have been included and more importantly my work held its own there. I will try and get hold of an image of the work in situ to add here when I go for the VIP reception tomorrow night.

There is also a mini site that will be up for a year promoting the work in the show so go and have a look at the variety of work for yourselves.

Fresh Faced And Wild Eyed 09

Thames Town series featured in Deep Sleep Magazine

Dave — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:27:32 +0000

Deep Sleep is, in the words of it’s creators, “…a quarterly online photography magazine founded by and featuring work from a small group of contributors who share the same office space in Shoreditch, East London. Each issue (published in February, May, August and November) will be on a specific theme and guest contributors are also invited to submit a set of images based on that theme.”

Well their theme for issue two was Alien and as such they are featuring my work from Thames Town, which is jolly nice of them (too much Blackadder goes Forth means the word ‘jolly’ must make an appearence).

You can see the whole issue here: Deep Sleep

Thames Town. 12"x12" Giclee Print.

Thames Town images featured on 1000 Words Blog

Dave — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:57:00 +0000

Tim Clark over at 1000 Words has featured my Thames Town work on his blog a little while back so please go over there and check out the blog. It is by far one of the more interesting blogs showcasing and reviewing contemporary photography online.

1000 Words Photography Blog

I’m back on the air!!!!!

Dave — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:52:46 +0000

So, I know it has been soooooooo long since I posted anything at all here but this is just a note to say I am back in business, yeah baby yeah!

I feel a bit like at school having to explain why my homework is late butseeing as i am currently dogless I have little excuse, except I have not had access to a scanner and a photography blog with no photos just isn’t the same…

Anyway, I’ve been working on a few personal projects recently all concerning our relationship to the land in one form or another, details will be posted on here soon I’ll post a bit later on different developments in the past 5 months, there have been a few interesting ones! But for now I will leave you with a recent image…

New Site online!

Dave — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:52:53 +0000

Just a quick not really to make sure people are aware that I have given my website a complete overhaul. More changes are yet to come but for now have a look over on http://davewyatt.com and let me know what you think.