ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Nick is a musician, who was living in a home made bender in some woods near Glastonbury UK.
I have been assembling a series of portraits of local musicians, all photographed on film using a 5x4 Horseman camera system.

A skylight had been built into the bender which, when the sun was at the right angle, sent a shaft of light into Nick's home. The light levels were so low that I had to bounce a flash off a piece of card outside the skylight to achieve the effect, and keep the shutter open for long enough to record the detail inside the structure. The image has been captured on HP5 rated at 200iso and pull processed to give a full tonal range.

AUTHOR
After studying Graphic Design in the 1960s, my early career was in in commercial photography in London. Moving away from London in the mid 1970s, I started working with other media; holding exhibitions of paintings at venues in Kent, doing sign work and making items such as pictorial pub signs and garden murals.

In the 1980s, I met the documentary photographer and archivist James Ravilious who encouraged me to re-examine the creative potential of photography. In the 1990s, after my signwriting workshop was devastated in a fire, I went to university in Exeter as a mature student, to undertake a degree in Design with a specialisation in photography.

I have been based in Glastonbury in the UK for the last 25 years, assembling a photographic archive of life in and around this rural Somerset town, famous for giving its name to the nearby Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts . Although I do have digital equipment, I still do a lot of work on medium and large format film stock, and I believe that this gives a much better tonal range; certainly when working with monochrome images.

I consider myself to be an artist who uses the medium of photography among others; a recent piece of work was in fact a painted garden mural. I am officially retired, which means that I am now able to concentrate on the work that I want to do, rather than being restricted by commercial considerations.

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