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 [...]
Musings
Photographer Dave Wyatt’s research and thoughts about photography
Thames Town
Telegraph
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 [...]
Shutterspark
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 [...]
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 09
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 [...]
Thames Town series featured in Deep Sleep Magazine
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 [...]
Thames Town images featured on 1000 Words Blog
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
New Site online!
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.
Further editing –Friday 8th August 2008
Spent the day slowly going through the edit and finding images that work together. I’m sure it will take months before I finally come up with an edit I am happy with and editing image order on a screen is shit. I need to get prints done.
To see where I am at with the edit [...]
More articles on Thames Town
Interesting post on the Hochparterre International blog about Thames Town and how the English Architects are as responsible as the Chinese for the lack of originality in building these theme towns.
English section is towards the bottom and click on the read more link to see the other article.
Hochparterre International
Dave
Thames Town -Recent article on Guardian Arts
Interesting recent take on Thames Town by Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian, scroll down to the last few paragraphs for the pertinent info. Despite being mostly empty, if i choose to focus on kitsch landscapes it could still serve well as a subject for the imagery… Also check out the audio slideshow for a bit [...]
Thames Town Fakes
Found this article on Shanghaiist about a fish and chip shop and a pub seemingly copied from a pub and fish and chip shop in Lyme Regis without any prior knowledge of the owner!
Shanghaiist: Perhaps we shouldn’t be suprised Thames Town is full of fakes
Dave
Thames Town
Located in Songjiang, about 30km from the centre of Shanghai, Thames Town is a new develpoment completed in 2006 and designed to offer a disctinctly English living experience to the Wealthy of Shanghai. The project includes detached housing, a church and even traditional fish and chips. This would be the ideal site to base my [...]
