Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

It’s been a bit of a hectic month since Gower and I haven’t posted as much as I’d like due to scanning, website design, photography trips and exhibitions. I’m going to try catching up on these over the next few days.

The first post Gower trip was to London to see David and Anna’s exhibition at the OXO gallery on the South Bank. I arrived early to see if I could help in any way and chatted with Paula (Pell-Johnson of Linhof Studios), Anna, David and Kyriakos (Kalakortis – http://kkpictures.com/). David tasked me and KK to put up stickers for his prints which we boldy screwed up niceley (how can something so simple go wrong!)..

Once the opening time arrived, the throng surged in until the place was so full it wasn’t easy to see the pictures. Fortunately I’d got a good look around earlier on and I have to say that both David and Anna’s pictures were very, very good. I’m familiar with David’s pictures already but seeing them in print (especially the large ones) was a different matter. Anna’s were totally unfamiliar and although her style is similar to David’s in some ways, she has more of an open feel to her compositions and is less transformative than David. My favourites of Anna’s were her Dune Grasses, KMK Doorway, Quarry Fern and, for instant appeal along, Peeling Bark 2

David’s most appealing ones were Boats, Rock Fins, Engineers House and Empty Sea

One of the things that struck me about the exhibition was how well the images worked without frames. The smaller prints were just hung, washing like style, on a wire line running down the gallery walls. The larger prints were mounted on aluminium, printed on epson luster with a matt coating. These prints looked absolutely stunning. They were big enough to really demonstrate the immense detail that the large format image shows and yet were still enjoyable as a whole if you walked a distance away. The sense of depth to the images was intense.

Another thing that struck me is how nice a lot of the people were that came to the exhibition. I spoke to Kyriakos at some length but I also spoke to Richard Holroyd, Mel & Jeremy Foster, Paul Wakefield, Joe Cornish, Roger Longdin, Gerry Gavigan, Nigel Halliwell and many more. My only real complaint about the evening is that it couldn’t carry on any longer!