My Photography Favourites: Ric Coles

Jared — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:43:44 +0000

Richard Coles in a Multi-disciplined photographer, programmer and guitarist. Here I am going to look at a few of his great photography skills which are showcased on his Flickr profile. He won’t admit by any means that his work is going to be up in the Tate or M.o.m.a anytime soon. But he has a raw feel to his photos and opens up to show vulnerabilities of his character, with personal photos.

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‘Black and White Creep’: Taken on a foggy winter’s evening in October, this photo is the result of a night just going out an exploring the environment around you. Seeing a different side to environments you inhabit everyday but produce a new side of life in the darkness of night.

‘Fog’: Again taken on the same night as the previous photo this was taken in Leverhulme park in Breightmet (Bolton.) The photo’s depiction of the lonely man (Richard himself) shows a vulnerability. The lights above and around him really shine through well around the dark silhouetted figure.

‘Ranch’: The photo itself was taken on a late summer holiday trip away in Tenby Wales, in a small camping site. The photo was then processed in Photoshop and is credited to have used textures by Pink Sherbert photography. The textures used overlaid on top of this original photograph really give it a real old school edge and grain to a great scene out in the dales of Tenby, Wales.

‘Motorway’: Taken with a Nikon D50, this photo was created with an 8 second exposure (with tripod) on a motorway bridge. I love long exposure shots and especially with heavy volumes of traffic, you really get a sense of the hectic rush and speed in all our lives.

‘My Broken Heart’:Originally envisenged as more of a conceptual photography idea, this photo really shows you richards feelings at this time in his life as he got over a difficult time. Bringing out true emotions in this picture really brings you closer to his character.

‘Dawn’ : Taken in the early morning when the birds are singing and the sun is about to rise, the photo captivates the dead of the early morning just before the morning rush of the next day.

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Designers of Inspiration: Daniel Eatock

Jared — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:19:18 +0000

Daniel is a Bolton born designer, but soon outgrew his small beginnings to work in the big city of London. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in London, Daniel did spend a small amount of time in the US working at the famous Walker Art Center. But bigger things were ahead for him back in the Nation’s capital, when back in London he launched foundation 33. This has since merged to become the creative agency we know as boymeetsgirl. In recent years Daniel has turned to working under the banner of Eatock ltd, which he continues to work for today.

You may not immediately think you know any of Daniel Eatock’s work but I’m sure you have gazed your eyes upon his work in some form or another. His work has been for many big name clients from The New York times to Channel 4, but the bulk of his work he creates is self initiated. The work evolves from being a small self initiated brief onto his website and then spreading onto being featured in gallery exhibitions.

The first works of Daniel Eatock you may not know about is that he has designed the big brother logo’s, and I think they are great how they developed and evolved over the many he has done. Each time he has come back to redesign the same premise of the single eye, he has made the design new and fresh giving it a great edge each time.

His other projects which are often self initiated are often completely left field and are something you can often look at and wonder why the hell he has decided to further this idea. But in a weird way these are the ideas and projects I love the most. He thinks completely out of the box and don’t forget that these projects more often than not appear as exhibits in galleries worldwide.

A great book Daniel Eatock has created is called “imprint” this is the first monograph of his work, the book chronicles the personal and commercial projects he has worked on. The projects blur between the bizarre and the commercial, and are a great chronicling of his portfolio of work. The book has a very scattered nature which reflects his website as well, but all has been carefully put together by the man himself. The book chronicles small events like pictures of the week large scale projects involving thousands of people. Each book created also in accordance with its title contains a person thumbprint from the man himself, could he be more personal?