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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

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

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

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.

Further editing –Friday 8th August 2008

Dave — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:16:40 +0000

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 now I put together a basic site in Lightroom to play with a few templates as a way of still dealing with the images but not directly editing them so still concentrating on them but in a more obtuse manner. The other links on the page are to the wider edits from the past 2 days as well.
Thames Town Edits
The images are in order with the first being the cover image and the rest being pairs to sit opposite each other on pages in a book, so should play off each other as well as still allow flow through the body of work.

Thames Town -Recent article on Guardian Arts

Dave — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:04:42 +0000

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 of a multimedia take on Chinese modern architecture.

From high-rise to the hutong

Dave