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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

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.

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

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 note 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.