Photography Competition : Prix Pictet

Results

The Prix Pictect is a major new photography prize for professional and amateur photographers. Its focus (pun intended) is on the global issue of 'sustainability' - this year the subject is water.

Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin has been crowned 2008 winner. Benoit's work, and images from some of the 17 other photographers who made the shortlist, can be seen here. Well worth a look. (Maybe next year's subject should be digital photography and the internet, and their contribution to global resource depletion. It's a thought).

Photography Exhibition : Edinburgh

Close-Up

This is an exhibition of macro photography and according to the official blurb the exhibition :

explores the defamiliarising effects of bringing a camera lens very close to its subject. Trans-historical and cross-generational, the exhibition brings together selected experiments in close-up film and photography from mid-nineteenth century microscopy; avant-garde film and photography from the 1920s and 30s; post-war conceptual art; and contemporary art from the 1990s and 2000s.

But don't let that put you off.


The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
24th October 2008 - 11th January 2009
Admission Free

Photography Tuition

Portrait, Weddings & Camera Basics


Last Friday I had the enthusiastic Fiona Neill over for 1-2-1 tuition. James (her boyfriend) came along as the model for the afternoon.

Here's a few images from the location shoot :









Thanks James you are a natural.


I currently offer 1-2-1 intuition and group tuition for a max. of 3 people. Half and full day courses are available. Lunch at nearby Amaretto (Bridge of Weir) is included with full day tuition.

As you know from the post I made in June this year, I recommend anyone looking for Photography Courses to check out evening classes at local colleges.

For details of my own tuition please call me on 01505 615124 or send an email to kim.mason@kfmphotography.co.uk.

Art Exhibition : Glasgow

Impressionism and Scotland

This exhibition has nothing to do with Jonathan Watson. It is, in fact, the same exhibition that failed to impress The Daily Telegraph when it was on in Edinburgh.

On display will be some of the greats: Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Whistler, Cezanne and Matisse and the Scots they inspired, including the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists.

I love Impressionism as much as I admire the Infantile School of Art. Believe what you read or believe what you see.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Argyle Street, Glasgow, Scotland
31st October 2008 - 1st February 2009
Admission £5, concessions £3, school groups free

Boudoir Photography & Trash The Dress


Pre wedding Boudoir Photography (aka "For Your Eyes Only" aka "fyeo") and post wedding Trash The Dress Sessions are big over there (the US) and becoming bigger over here (the UK).

I don't promote Boudoir Photography because I believe brides (and grooms I guess) are more comfortable using female photographers for their boudoir images. So when I get enquiries for Boudoir Photography I always recommend Beautifully Boudoir based on Maryhill Road, Glasgow, Scotland. They are a two girl team and I've heard (from my own clients) only excellent things.

BB's telephone numbers are : 0789 1166 398/ 0781 8484 205


Trash The Dress is something I do; well it's something I photograph anyway. Don't worry we don't actually trash the dress. It's more a case of photographing (post wedding) the Bride, wearing her wedding dress, in unusual locations. If you are interested please give me a call.

Photography Exhibitions : Edinburgh

Close : Allan Pollok-Morris

Allan Pollok-Morris documents contemporary Scottish heritage in works by garden designers, architects, plants, people and artists. More info here.

Royal Botanic Garden
Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, Scotland
27th September - 11th January 2009




Protest Pictures : Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamiltion was a founder of the Pop Art movement. This exhibition brings together paintings and sculpture from his life-long interest in political figures and movements.

Inverleith House
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
13th July - 12th October 2008

Photography Exhibition : Glasgow

Byres Road - a personal journey : Kel Kirkland

The next exhibition at the Art Gallery in The Mussel Inn (Glasgow) is by Kel Kirkland. The star of the show is the architectural minutia of this well known and well loved West End road.

Mussel Inn Restaurant
157 Hope Street, Glasgow, Scotland
1st October - 5th November 2008