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THE STRAND GIRLS
- Intimate photography of femininity with inescapable passion, panache and savoir-faire - Photographed by Martin Billings
All exhibitions should demand an unconstrained approach; some elbowroom, if you will, to display the creator’s artwork to its full potential. The Strand Girls is a rather capricious venture, but is a free-willed body of work. It is a result of two separate photographic projects, one called Spectatrix, a female witness of other people – a voyeur, the other Life Interruptus a parody of the telephone’s life-giving and time-taking qualities. Combined in both was femininity, edgy eroticism and the Strand’s ambience. The pleasure of collating the photographs became a delight providing a reassessment of the images original use and establishing a fresh entertaining association, a belonging to one place; as ‘Belles’ of the Strand so belle assemblée was possible.
I'm a recalcitrant photographer, a defiant, stubborn and sometimes rebellious individual, and this show has all the redeeming features of my defiant nature. An irreverent eye has been at work to construct this set of pictures to delight and deceit spectators; a delicate and refined play of the imagination is no bad thing. I'm a photographer who tugs at the edges of his ingenuity. I think of a photograph as a one-act play, and spectators need to ask themselves, “Where in the script would this scene be taking place”?
... you watch your model carefully. What you mistook for vacancy is in fact passion.
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- Intimate photography of femininity with inescapable passion, panache and savoir-faire - Photographed by Martin Billings
All exhibitions should demand an unconstrained approach; some elbowroom, if you will, to display the creator’s artwork to its full potential. The Strand Girls is a rather capricious venture, but is a free-willed body of work. It is a result of two separate photographic projects, one called Spectatrix, a female witness of other people – a voyeur, the other Life Interruptus a parody of the telephone’s life-giving and time-taking qualities. Combined in both was femininity, edgy eroticism and the Strand’s ambience. The pleasure of collating the photographs became a delight providing a reassessment of the images original use and establishing a fresh entertaining association, a belonging to one place; as ‘Belles’ of the Strand so belle assemblée was possible.
I'm a recalcitrant photographer, a defiant, stubborn and sometimes rebellious individual, and this show has all the redeeming features of my defiant nature. An irreverent eye has been at work to construct this set of pictures to delight and deceit spectators; a delicate and refined play of the imagination is no bad thing. I'm a photographer who tugs at the edges of his ingenuity. I think of a photograph as a one-act play, and spectators need to ask themselves, “Where in the script would this scene be taking place”?
... you watch your model carefully. What you mistook for vacancy is in fact passion.
TO VIEW SLIDESHOW PLEASE CLICK HERE