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November 23, 2005
So, you don't see someone for 3 years or more and the next thing you know they are having an MA Final Show type thingy - And as there's free drink it seems churlish not to go and have a look.Now, much as I'd like to lure others with the same promise of free booze - Too bad, you missed that bit. So, why should you go? Well, all of the 16 Photographers involved have toiled for this day for a couple of years now and it would be rude not to.
So what's to see?
Firstly we were interrupted by the announcement that there would be a £1000 prize for best in show. But there was a reason for this. David Sproxton, of Aardmann Animations fame, was introduced. As it was he who had stumped up the Grand, in the memory of his late brother. He then handed us over to a chap from the National Gallery and former pupil, Poppy de Villeneuve... Who, in their infinite wisdom, selected Matthew Andrew's intensely dull photos of, apparently, an archeological site [it's a bloody field!] and some anonymous server room. Look at Poppy's website, above, and you'll see why! Sigh!
So, with that out the way, what do I think should have won. I don't know actually, but I can tell you what I liked - Well, I should say Derek Mossop's In My Vanilla Life series, which, without sounding biased [as this is who I came to see] at least goes to the trouble of exploiting the photographs abilty to capture a fleeting moment in time - In this case, Le Petit Mort.
Le Petit Mort refers to the timeless moment of orgasm: a brief release from life, mind, and ego. For an instant the world falls away, and as the mind is silenced one is open to an ecstatic union as self glimpses Self. The ego is momentarily displaced: the little death... So the French say anyhow.
Or is that all wank?
So, the also rans included -
Peter Holmboe: I feel I missed the point here, not noticing that the subjects were transgendered individual's and more taken by their rooms and the lighting.
Richard Kelly: Portraits of the women in his family work well both as individual portraits and as a series.
Robert Ball: Unsurprisingly, given the subject matter on his site, is a Scene of Crime photographer, but the set of Pacemakers exhibited here work in both an abstract way as well as the obvious life/death suggestion they allude to.
Anna Guldager: Covers old ground. the biker has been seen as a so called outsider for 50 years or more and there are far more disaffected "tribes" these days... but the portraits here are fine black and white prints, with more than a nod toward Richard Avedon.
Miranda Hutton: These photographs of spaces left behind by the deceased; their homes and possesions, still awaiting their return, are little short of haunting.
The rest didn't even qualify as art wank as far as I'm concerned and as Thumper says, "If yer can't say anything nice, don't say nothing at all"! Or something like that... [apart from if someone won a Grand for it].
But Hey! What do I know - Go and have a look for yourselves. The London College Of Communications MA Photography Final Show 2005 runs until 2nd December and is at...
The Galleries
London College of Communication
Elephant & Castle
SE1 6SB
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