Jamie Smith
London, London, United Kingdom
Growing up in Kent, Smith began his photographic interest on childhood holidays, documenting the aba...
About the artist
Jamie Smith
Joined In 2020
(2 Followers)
About the artist
Jamie Smith
Joined In 2020
(2 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
Growing up in Kent, Smith began his photographic interest on childhood holidays, documenting the abandoned mines and queries on the Cornish coast, finding a deep excitement exploring the relics of the industrial revolution.
He continued to study photography at Staffordshire University, graduating in 2006. It was during his studies he was inspired by the American New-Topographic movement and began his own contemporary documentary record of the defunct pottery industry that surrounded the British midlands.
Arriving in Hackney, London the following year, Jamie fell in with the bohemian artists and designers frequenting leaky warehouse and illegal parties throughout east London. There he honed a style of environmental portraiture that was at the same time interior documentary, searching out beauty amongst the unpolished talent.
These same themes of beauty in the banal and industrial landscape in flux can be seen in his works documenting the collapse of the motor industry in Detroit, the troubled steel and oil industries of Middlesborough and his series of abandoned Athens Olympics Stadiums. An appreciation for Architecture become more focused in his Brutalist London series, examining how the social upheaval of post-war Europe ...
A-level Commuications / Photography - Kent College - Tonbridge
BA Photography - Staffordshire University
Exhibitions:
AOP Sublime Exhibition Winner 2008
Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Urban and Garden winner 2009
Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Urban and Garden -Shortlist 2010
Motor City Detroit – Solo Show Jaguar Shoes, London 2010
Black and White Photographer of the Year – Shortlist 2011
Labyrinth Photographic Show - A Year in Development 2012
Foto8 Summer Show Finalist 2012
Athens Project Solo Show - Print Room London 2012
Labyrinth Photographic Show - A Year in Development 2013
125 World Group Show - London 2014
Labyrinth Photographic Show - A Year in Development 2014
125 World Group Show - London 2015
British Journal of Photography - Portrait of Britain 2016
Age Doesn’t Matter - Group Portr...