I've been meaning to write about this for the past week and finally, I've
found the time. Back on Monday (17th) Ed and I attended the Contemp-
orary photography discussion at the Saatchi Gallery hosted by -
Speakers:
David Campany
David Campany is an artist and writer and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of Art and Photography (Phaidon 2003) and Photography and Cinema (Reaktion 2008).
Charlotte Cotton
Charlotte is Creative Director at the National Media Museum, Bradford.
Before that she was Head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), a Curator of Photography at the V&A for 12 years and then Head of Programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London.
David Campany is an artist and writer and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of Art and Photography (Phaidon 2003) and Photography and Cinema (Reaktion 2008).
Charlotte Cotton
Charlotte is Creative Director at the National Media Museum, Bradford.
Before that she was Head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), a Curator of Photography at the V&A for 12 years and then Head of Programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London.
Clarisse D'Arcimoles
Clarisse D'Arcimoles is a French emerging photographer and installation artist currently based in London. After graduating from Set Design for Performance at Central Saint Martin's, she began a Postgraduate course in Photography. During this period she started focusing on performance photography staged specifically for the camera, and exploring ways of documentation of performance art works. Her work is featured in Newspeak: British Art Now at the Saatchi Gallery.
Anne Hardy
Anne Hardy’s photographs depict fictional spaces which have both a magical and naturalistic quality. Constructed within the studio using a range of materials, from disintegrating found objects to natural forms, these spaces uncover the uneasy relationship between the natural and artificial. Anne has shown her work in many solo and group shows around the world, including the Saatchi Gallery's current exhibition Newspeak: British Art Now. She lives and works in London.
Anne Hardy’s photographs depict fictional spaces which have both a magical and naturalistic quality. Constructed within the studio using a range of materials, from disintegrating found objects to natural forms, these spaces uncover the uneasy relationship between the natural and artificial. Anne has shown her work in many solo and group shows around the world, including the Saatchi Gallery's current exhibition Newspeak: British Art Now. She lives and works in London.
The debate was really interesting, in particular the topic of the use of trad-
itional methods of photography (35mm) being 'technologically superceded'
by digital and SLR cameras. All of the panel had something to say ranging
from '(the) ease and simplicity of repreduction, manipulation and storage'
[Anne Hardy] as a result of technological advances; to the 'accessability
of peoples work as a result of the web enabled upload of digital photos'
[David Campany]. The introduction of camera phones such as the iPhone
were also discussed, highlighting that over '8 billion' photos were posted
online last year. Despite very few of these being seen as 'Fine art' in a
photographic sense, it just demonstrates that in the future photography is go-
ing to become a even more widely and certainly diverse medium for artists.
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