Turkey Cinemascope by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersOct 26th, 2011 | No Comments
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. Born in Bakırköy, Istanbul on 26 January 1959, Nuri Bilge Ceylan spent his childhood in Yenice, his father’s hometown in the North Aegean province of Çanakkale. His interest in the art of photography, kindled during his time at high school, blossomed at the Boğaziçi University photography club, where he also took passport-style photos to earn some pocket money. As well as photography, he also became involved with the mountaineering and chess clubs. The university’s extensive library and music archive played a significant role in fuelling his passion for the visual arts and classical music in particular. Meanwhile, the elective film studies course he took with Üstün Barışta and the film club’s special screenings did much to reinforce his love of cinema, which had taken root earlier during showings at the Cinémathèque in Istanbul’s Taksim. These were the years before DVD and video when films had to be watched at the cinema. (more…)
Moving pictures by Chris Friel
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersOct 14th, 2011 | No Comments
Chris Friel is a British colour blind painter who bought a camera in 2006 and has not painted since. His work is influenced by the land and seascapes of his home town, Whitstable, in Kent, and by the challenging environments he encounters in his parallel career as a television documentary sound recordist. By simply moving his camera during exposure, Chris creates beautiful and otherworldly images of the landscape around him. He has been shortlisted for Landscape Photographer of the Year for the past three years running. His images have been exhibited in the South Bank Centre, on the Santiago subway in Chile, projected behind the London Sinfonietta in the Royal Festival Hall, and nearer home in Whitstable. Chris is one of the finest contemporary landscape photographers in the UK today. (more…)
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