Stephen Gill: Assignment part one.

So here's a bit of my research into Stephen Gill... You're welcome.

Gill was born in 1971 in Bristol.  He had an interest in photography from a very early age. He started his first photography related job whilst still at school in 1985, copying and restoring old photographs for a local company. 

Gills approach is a way of giving up some of the control you have when taking the picture… ‘I have slightly less control and have to grapple with the point where intention meets chance. I buried prints in the ground, leaving them for a while and then digging them up. It is exciting, knowing you are working half-blind; you have no idea what the pictures will look like.

This series is in the same vein; until you process the film, you have no idea where the objects will fall.’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/03/photography-stephen-gill-best-shot

I’d have to say his style is documentary with a somewhat artistic side thrown into the mix... 

Gill used a specially adapted, medium format film camera to create this series of work. He creates the layered images by putting objects in the film chamber, leaves, bits of plants, glass, even using insects on a couple of occasions, all found around Brighton where the images were taken for the 2010 Brighton Biennial Photo exhibition, curated by Martin Parr. When the image is taken the ‘objects’ are exposed onto the film and thus you have a layered image…. Who needs Photoshop eh!