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If you're part of JPG mag, please take a look at my new submission... the subject might be familiar!

www.jpgmag.com/photos/1165264

Oh and if you're from the states I hope you're not done with voting already, I know I'd appreciate one more from you!

Rich*****

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A critical slant on the industry... (or, the sort of essay I should probably have been writing when I was at Uni).

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I've been looking at the work of Emily Shur from the recommendation of Chris Weeks aphotocontributor.typepad.com and have been struck by a thought which compelled me to strike all others about the work from my mind.

The first two sections of her portfolio www.emilyshur.com are photographs of "Actors" split first into "Men" and then into "Women" (really, I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence, please stick with me while I try to get my own head around this).

When I had actually processed the fact that she'd actually done this it concerned me a little; would I, as a male in her position, have done the opposite (be it through an anachronistic sense of courtesy or whatever)?  Wouldn't it be more in my liberal and feminist nature to have forgone the seperation completely?

Or was it, as I'm now thinking, done purposefully to provoke a deeper analysis of her work AND her subjects?  For the most part I'm not wholly interested and also slightly perturbed by the glamourisation of other men, mainly because I'm a bloke - whereas I'm more comfortable regarding women in a similar aspect as glamour seems to come more naturally to them in my eyes.  

Men and women - especially the men - come across in a favourable light when their personalities are portrayed with a comical edge, or when Shur has used her consummate skills of composition or introducing unusual props to throw off our perceptions of her subjects.  A good example of this is seeing Greg Kinnear in a pretty straightforward middle-of-the-image full length photo standing on a tennis court with only a pair of rather fetching chequered socks on his feet, or even Aaron Schwartzmann waving from without the doorway, brifcase by his feet, drawing your attention to his shoes' oversized tongues sticking out.  (For the record, Alan Arkin's diminutive advice booth is the kind of inspired choice of photo which I would be more than happy to have hanging in a prominent position on my wall.  It's both touching and a gorgeous piece of art, it matters not a jot that the whole thing is contrived.)

I'm inclined to believe that Shur is doing it on purpose, as her approach seems to differenciate between a) "sex symbols" and b) "characters" in both sexes.  Now I'm probably stating the obvious, or presenting my conclusions too early, but the evidence is clear to see on the site itself.

All in all I'll say my perceptions have been challenged and I really quite enjoyed it.  Thank you Emily, I'll continue to have a good look at the rest of your very fine art now (and I'll shut up and just appreciate it).

Rich*****

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Arranging my brains / On the page... / With a stick

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"Official" site now in a presentable format... until I get uber thing looking like a site, this will actually look quite good I think.  Currently it's only hosting about 20 images from the past 4 years of my work, which I have very painstakingly selected.  I'll be making purchases avaliable soon, and will probably also be focussing on putting my news stories there too.

I'm still checking here regularly, mostly incognito though!  Will post some sets up from time to time.

Rich*****

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I realise that none too long ago I ranted about certain people who still remain nameless uploading far more deviations that I felt I could ever keep track of.

Now that I have committed this heinous act myself I'm not going to say I was wrong, but I do have my reasons:

Firstly, this photoset is pretty ace in my estimation and rather well recieved by the clients too.

Secondly, since the advent of dA's new gallery system enabling individual galleries for specific sets of work, I think it's more acceptable now to specifically upload sets of images.   You may think that's just excuse, but it's pretty obvious.

Thirdly, out of at least 300 images taken that night (solely of John and Jon) cutting them down to 90 good ones, then 40 great ones and then 20 was no mean feat.

Fourthly, I like the taste of humble pie... mmmm, bitterness...

On a serious note I'm probably going to do more of this in the future as there are still gig sets I haven't "polished" yet and these need to be compiled.  And hopefully with the Canon 30D I should be recieving pretty soon there'll be many more assignations on the horizon! *fingers crossed that I can shoot Kaki King!*

If you like my work I want to know about it!  Thanks to the new viewers for their comments and favourites, it was a pleasant surprise to see new messages appearing whilst I was uploading!

Rich*****

PS: If you made it this far, you're a real trooper! :D

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...and computer's being very strange.  If anyone can tell me why Windows needs it's installation disk to run can you please explain to me???

Apart from that it's full of new parts so much nicer to play with pictures and just about everything else!  Not gonna break any records but it's so nice to have a much more friendly system (well hopefully it will be eventually) after quite a while of being "patient" and putting up with a truly awful system...

Yeah I do go on...

Aberyswyth this coming weekend, will be nice to see the sea again, even in November, ;) that's sentimentality for you!

Rich*****

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:iconrolfness: :iconshoomlah: :iconsomething-wild: :iconsporkguy: :icontassou: :iconultraviolett: :icondalenorvell: :iconzeruch:

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