Dave Wyatt

Custom Profiles

Dave — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:21:39 +0000

Just a quick heads up to say I’ve launched a new Custom ICC Colour profiling service for photographers who do their own printing. If you’d like more info please pop over to the new site for the service, http://www.customprofiles.co.uk and remember to add it to your bookmarks for whenever you need to get the best out of your printer/paper combination.

The Woods

Dave — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:18:02 +0000

For the past 2 years I’ve been working on a new body of work about the woods next to my house. The resulting images have allowed me to explore how we relate to the abandoned rural landscape in Britain today. Formally a quarry, the woods have been left to grow unchecked for at least the past 30 years, and the result is a complicated mix of thick forest and sparse areas of quarried land. Here is a sneak preview of the work, more of which will be shown this saturday at my talk at The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

Whitworth Talk

Dave — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:25:24 +0000

For anyone in Manchester, I’m giving a talk at the Whitworth Art Gallery again this Saturday as part of their Alternative Camera Club program. For those who met me there in late January it’ll be pretty much the same run through of my work but I am in the midst of editing my latest piece on a forest, so that may make a showing…

Anyway, I think the schedule has me talking from 10.30am and if you come along please feel free to ask lots of questions, it makes the whole experience a lot more interactive!

More information can be found courtesy of the Whitworth Adult Programme

Singapore International Photography Festival

Dave — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:59:49 +0000

I’ve been very honoured recently to have been included in the 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival exhibiting my Thames Town work alongside the works of 47 other photographers from around the globe.

From the SIPF website: “The 2nd SIPF continues its purpose to unearth new works and talents while incorporating the theme, Human : Nature, to address the universal concerns of the world. There is a duality in this theme and it can be freely interpreted either as ‘Human Nature’ or ‘Human & Nature’; the colon representing a relationship or a balanced ratio between the words. This is an ambitious call for creative interpretation based on the theme, yet, the 550 works from 48 photographers from 23 countries selected by the four festival curators Ark Fongsmut, Bridget Tracy Tan, Chow Chee Yong and Yasufumi Nakamori, continue to inspire the photography community and elevates the understanding of photography.”

You can visit until the 13th November. My work is on show at The Gallery, Old School. For more details please visit SIPF.sg and to download the full guide to the exhibitions click here

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.

The book of all the winners and honourable mentions is available now from Magenta at their website

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.

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