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Fordson profile #3 limited edition of 100 - Limited Edition of 100 Photograph
United Kingdom
Photography, Giclée on Paper
Size: 34.8 W x 25.5 H x 0.1 D in
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From Dad’s 6 year old boy's perspective the clutch on the Fordsons’ had an impossibly high travel, which meant he had to stand on it with two feet. It had to be raised gently, especially near the top of its travel. Too quick, and you risked a stalled tractor and a reprimand. At lunchtimes, the Fordson became the homeward bound method of transport of up to five persons, mostly clinging on for dear life. My grandfather had Fordson tractors on the family farm up until dad took over in the mid ‘60s. Descriptions of them formed much of the framework for the stories told of our farm from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Although I chose not to follow in the family farming tradition, and dad left farming in the mid-80s, my farming childhood provided the foundations of my life. This is one of three old Fordsons which lay quietly rusting in my home village of Bowerchalke, not far from our old farm. Unused and forgotten, they've endured unloved under the trees on an overgrown river bank. Recently the tractors were removed, nearly half a century of English weather had given the machines a unique patina. The story of these machines is now told in rust, dents and missing panels. It seemed to me that these tractors, once great sculptures of the landscape, were now, in turn, sculptured themselves by the wind and rain from that same landscape. They looked like the toy tractors of my childhood. The symmetry and simplicity of design was all so gloriously obvious, their textural history and geography mapped out before me. The devastating effect of the relentless elements on even the most robust of machines gave them a fragile demeanour. The weather has muted the colours of their paintwork and the years have taken their toll yet these machines endure to inform and educate us of our not so long ago agricultural past.
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Photography:Giclée on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:100
Size:34.8 W x 25.5 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I am a photographer based in central London. I have been shooting editorially and commercially for 25 years, My work has largely been to create imagery for luxury brands and publications . Clients include Omega, Patek Philliepe,Dunhill, Selfridges and Net-A-Porter and magazines such as British Vogue, Wallpaper* Esquire and GQ. I have worked on my own personal projects through out that time and have gained recognition for my projects including 'Mixed' which is a project about the lives and experiences of people who have grown up in a family that perhaps surprises others. The images present different family members, a parent, a child, a sibling or a grandparent all of whom are related. My aim was to show how society is evolving and changing, and how as it does we are all encouraged to think differently. Whilst the differences are seen on the surface through skin colour, I believe the real changes are more than skin deep and that in effect we are witnessing a coming together not only of cultures, but class, religion and genealogy. I am in a mixed relationship and together with my partner we have three children who I believe represent this aspect of a changing society. The work was exhibited 20 September 2017 – 25 May 2018, at the Migration Museum, London. No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain. http://www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/noturningback/ In 2012 I shot 'Kiss' which was Exhibited as part of 'Kus. Von Rodin Bis Bob Dylan' at The Bröhan Museum, Berlin from June 15th - October 3rd 2017, curated by Dr Anna Grosskopt. The Exhibition included work by Auguste Rodin, Edvard Munch, Alex Poulson and Bob Dylan. The Brohan Museum is an art and design museum devoted to art of the modern period it houses a unique collection of art nouveau and art deco. https://www.broehan-museum.de/en/exhibition/kiss-from-rodin-to-bob-dylan/ The work was also covered in the guardian magazine https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/feb/10/kiss-andy-barter and The Times. I have the recipient of numerous photographic awards including Communication Arts AOP Awards D&AD Campaign Press Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival Club des Directeurs Artistiques
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