Expired Portraits

These are two from my first shoot in my Documentary Portrait series surrounding remote control enthusiasts. It was my first 'tester' shoot, and due to a delayed delivery of Colour negative, I only had with me a single role of expired colour positive. I took some portraits, and arranged a time to come back. It was a horrible rainy day, with constant light changing conditions, so I struggled with exposures without an assistant to take the light meter readings for me. Every time I ran back to my spot, the light seemed to change. I am happy with the beginning of my project though. It's something to build on.

WCRCCC

West Cornwall Radio Control Car Club at Barripper, Cornwall
120 Velvia Colour positive Film

Remote Controlled Landscapes

My current work in progress is a documentary landscape/portrait project based around Remote Control Enthusiasts in Cornwall. For this project I have been experimenting with different mediums, Digital and 120 colour film in square format.

Falmouth Model Boat Club at Swanpool

Camborne Pondhoppers Model Boat Club at Helston

West Cornwall Radio Control Car Club at Barripper

Remote Control Flyers at Perranporth

Cornwall Model Racing Club at Perranporth

A fires been put out.

Well, after taking a few months out, my blog feels a bit...damp.
So it's a fresh start, I'm going to get back into the swing of things, and soon you'll be updated with projects from The Melplash Agricultural show, Remote Control Enthusiasts, And I'm still working on my edit from my shoot back in June at the PSA group.

For now, here's some images of a fire being put out, because thats whats happened to my blog.

Fireman tackle a motorbike which had caught on fire, closing West Bay Road, Bridport, Dorset.

The blaze, although not threatening to become out of control, still closed West Bay Road from traffic.

The Summer Impact

The Summer has had a huge impact on my photography, or lack of it should I say. I've found myself working hard to try and pay my rent over the summer, repair some of the damage done to my bank balance. Often working 12hour days in a very busy bar & restaurant, photography has taken second place, and most days I am left so exhausted from work, photography & the editing process is the last thing on my mind, instead I crave relaxation before the next long day.

I've also found myself finding the fast paced press events less enjoyable to work. It all feels too rushed.  I'm not living in a dream world where I think I will be able to survive off documentary work alone. I know I will be forced to take press or commercial jobs if I want to earn some pennies to support documentary work, but I havn't been enjoying press jobs recently, and I dont want photography to become a chore to me. For this reason I still haven't edited my images I took at the start of June at Peugeot & Citroen. Every time I try I just don't know where to begin, get frustrated and get nowhere. I need time, without worries, stress and tiredness from work, and the help of a couple of my close friends to edit the images.

I did dust off my camera when I went up to London last week, I wanted to be able to just enjoy photography again. I'm not fond of London, or cities in general for that matter having grown up in the countryside, but i thought with some fresh surroundings I could really get into shooting away. I struggled, I often felt like a stereotypical tourist walking around with my Nikon and rarely wanted to bring the camera to my eye. 19 frames in 3 hours and I tucked my camera away in my camera bag feeling a little dejected by my own lack of enthusiasm.

'The Long Water, Hampton Court Palace, London, 7th August 2012.'
f.22 1/100
 ©Patrick Campbell

Olympic Torch through Bridport, Dorset

The Olympic torch passed through my hometown of Bridport, Dorset on Thursday 12th July, 2012, a soaking wet rainy day. I was actually on shift at my work at The Stable (http://thestabledorset.co.uk/), but was allowed out for 10 minutes to photograph as the Torch came through.

I ran out with my d7000, and tried to very quickly run up and down the street looking for some images. The light was horrible, it was so dark, the rain was so hard and kept covering my lens, and then any lights (from the police cars) just glared out in the images. Safe to say I was not Prepared.

These are 5 Images from the day. I really don't like these, and they arn't a touch on the ones I shot in Falmouth, but that goes to show how much preparation for an event comes through.
I particulary don't like the 4th Image down because of the lighting, however I could imagine this frame being perfect had it been a nice sunny day and I captured the light correctly. So I put it up here anyway as a reminder of the mistakes I still make.

All Images taken along South Street, Bridport, 12th July 2012.

Uncontained Review

Pig House Pictures: The Uncontained Edition

04 July, 2012
by: Spoonfed Arts Team

Jonathan Bright explores the work of the Pig House Pictures Collective at Boxpark.

I like to think I can make enough of a foray into the world of photojournalism to breathe some life into my writing. I’d never consider myself anything close to a photojournalist, but I think we can all appreciate the value of strong characterisation. That is no better demonstrated than by Pig House Pictures’ inaugural monochrome exhibition - the Uncontained Edition. It opened Monday at the 55DSL Store in Shoreditch’s trendy Boxpark retail complex to a fantastic response, and tomorrow night moves into trendier-still Netil Housein Hackney. 

The brainchild of a group of acclaimed photojournalism students from University College Falmouth, Pig House’s latest project documents contemporary tales from the ordinarily macabre to the extraordinarily mundane through a series of beautiful and personable portraits. An intimate shot of an auction in the sleepy Cornish town of Lostwithiel, for example, bursts with a suspenseful energy in the quietly tense facial expressions on show. I’d dare say even the auction itself did not teem with such grit. 

After releasing their debut publication online in May – to the impressive tune of over a quarter of a million hits – Pig House was asked to present the exhibition at Diesel’s super-chic east London fashion store. 

Pig House photographer and curator Sabrina Dallot-Seguro says: “Winning the proposal was amazing. I knew that launching the collective in London, particularly the very centre of buzzing Shoreditch, would have a huge impact on the way our work can be viewed.” 

She explains the personable, intimate nature of the shots, which range from lapdancer to naturist, amputee soldier to amputee painter, deep sea fisherman to owl breeder (incidentally I never knew the collective term was a ‘parliament’ of owls. Something new every day), was aided by its monochrome presentation, visualising diverse caricatures in their element: 

“Choosing to install only monochrome images meant many photographers chose original 35mm prints,” says Sabrina, “placing the collective in the context of traditional film photojournalists. Working in a classic way allowed us to settle very happily against our usual West Country backdrop. But relocating to such an extreme so successfully shows that our work has a place in the universal media.” 

Certainly if you consider one of Sabrina’s own shots as a gracious nod to Shoreditch’s exclusive party scene (pictured above). It's an up-close shot of a reveller at infamous club night ‘Catface’ - where one is expected to draw whiskers on one's face. The protagonist’s whiskers have all but wiped away, her eyes look longingly down the lens, hinting at the rough time of night and her contented state of mind at the point of snapping. Despite her obvious exhaustion it is a warm, loving, lingering look. 

Such an approach transcends Pig House Pictures’ work – the insightful graft of 40 emerging photographers from the college. There is a calm of complexity surrounding each artistically flawless image. I imagine it’s a cliché in the world of photojournalism to say the pictures tell a thousand stories, but what can I say? They do. Presented with an enigmatic face and a sometimes bizarre context, one’s mind paints the tiniest doldrums of a fascinating and as-yet-unconsidered life to canvas. 

Check out the Platform Bar + Terrace tomorrow in Netil House, off Mare Street, and see what tales you can chase.

Words Jonathan Bright.

http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/spoonfed-arts-team-8139/pig-house-pictures-the-uncontained-edition-6998/

UNCONTAINED

Exhibiting on London on Monday, Please come and show your support.

Pig house Pictures write up

Le Pig House

The French are known for many things: cheese, bread, berets, cheese, fashion, design, cheese etc. PHP photographer Patrick Campbell has spent the past week or so brushing up on his foreign relations skills whilst paying a visit to the PSA Peugeot-Citroen group in Velizy Villacoublay, just south of Paris. He met, interviewed and photographed Jean Pierre Ploue, Director of Design of the PSA group - Ooh la la and other French idioms to that effect.

Campbell interviewed Pierre Ploue over cheese, I mean lunch, with his colleagues and a collection of designers who played key roles in the design of Peugeot's new DS5 model.

"The original plan was to do most of the shoot on the balcony with the cars, but due to rain it was not possible so I photographed in JPP's office."

After Pierre Ploue had to leave to do Peugeot-ey things, Patrick continued the shoot with the other designers, and was taken upstairs to a viewing area where a life-sized clay and presentation model (which was taken to China to use in the world launch for the car) could be viewed.

Photographs from the shoot will be posted on here as soon as they become available. 

http://pighousepictures.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pig-house-news-18062012.html

Pig House Pictures: blog: PHP Picture of the Week: Patrick Campbell

Pig House Pictures: blog: PHP Picture of the Week: Patrick Campbell: This week's 'PHP Picture of the Week' comes from our very own Patrick Campbell. In the good old patriotic Cornish fashion, this p...




So I'm the pig house picture of the week. How awesome is that?
this Image also won 'Best Feature Picture' in the in house University Press & Editorial Awards 2012 judged by Panos!!!!