Around 60 international commissions have been shot for editorial clients, covering: Commercial clients have included; Selected Magazines (published-by & clients) Selected National Newspapers & Books (published-by & clients) Example Web use Personal & Commissioned exhibitions Teaching experience Biography My passion for photography is rooted in my passion for people, interest in long-term projects and fascination with the development of this still young art form. The photography i most enjoy represents sharply observed moments which stand both as biographical record and also documents capturing the zeitgeist. The work which interests me most from others says as much about their time and their life as it does the lives of their subjects. I left school in 1991 aged 18, traveled to India on VSO work to teach English at a remote Tibetan refugee settlement in the Himalayas, and began to explore the humanist themes in photography which first drew me to the medium in my pre-teens. More visits to the village and India followed until the last in 1997 when, aged 24, I graduated with a Ba Honors degree in photography, established my first studio base in Nottingham and began planning a solo exhibition using the Tibetan work. The ´Manduwala´ exhibition, held in Bloomsbury London, illustrated westernization and a growing permanence of the settlement over a 6 year period from 1991 to 1997, as well as the daily life of Tibetan people in exile. I had made 5 visits totaling one and a half years living with the villagers and documented pilgrimages, New Year celebrations and daily routines. The show, intended to highlight the impact of life in exile, gained heavy sponsorship from Kentmere, NTU, Kodak Eastman, (who subsequently requested a selection of prints for the private Eastman archive), and other specialist exhibition suppliers. While putting together the ´Manduwala´ exhibition during 1998 I was living in a flat below musicians and DJs who´s events i began to photograph as a personal project. International commissions to document festivals and gig work soon followed from a pool of high-end magazines published in the UK and America. This personal work concerning electronic music was supplemented by commercial photography. Now, with around 60 international and many hundreds of UK commissions undertaken, my work concerning youth culture & music is being prepared for book and exhibition. I´m digitally archiving my past work, lecture photography to undergraduates and am currently located in Norway, where I live with my lover, Beate, and our son, Tor Capa. |
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