FT: Stephen Gill

[FPjohn]

https://www.ft.com/content/850b8a84-08b3-11e9-9fe8-acdb36967cfc

yours
FPJ

 

[Richard G]

FT = Financial Times.

And Stephen Gill is a British photographer.

https://www.stephengill.co.uk/portfolio/about

I don’t have a subscription either. Not sure what it’s about. There are ways to find out without paying.

 

[emraphoto]

Awesome stuff. Super impressed. Thanx 😉

 

[jarski]

There’s pay wall awaiting behind the link.

 

[FPjohn]

search FT plus part of title. They generally let you have the article after a short Q&A poll. Yours FPJ

 

[filmtwit]

 

[Zuiko-logist]

Stephen Gill (b. 1971, Bristol, UK)

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Gill’s passion for photography was sparked by his father’s quiet influence and fuelled by an early fascination with insects, birdlife, and the tiny pond creatures he’d gather to examine under a microscope. Music, too, has long been a steady companion. Together, these early obsessions nurtured a sense of wonder, and image-making became not only a way of exploring such curiosities, but a means of responding to his surroundings and to the subjects that intrigue or move him. Over time, it has become an essential form of articulation and expression.

As the years have passed, Gill’s relationship with photography has continued to evolve. While he values photography’s strengths, he remains increasingly aware of its limits, how straight descriptive photographs are often unable to convey more elusive emotions, feelings, or ideas that lie beyond the glass wall of clarity, projection and control. He works outside those limits, developing a quiet trust in chance and what can be withheld. In reducing information, he often finds that something vital — a presence, a spirit — can remain, allowing the subject to breathe without interference.

Gill continues to explore the idea that even the most abstract or ambiguous images can carry a truth, sometimes more illuminating than clear visual description, however factual it may appear. In a time when images flood every corner of life and certainty feels harder to hold, he chooses to relinquish much of the authorship and control, seeking instead to honour his subjects by handing much of the authorship back to them. He is often drawn to finding ways to collaborate with his subjects or to assist them to fully speak for themselves, without the images being suffocated by the medium or the maker.

His photographs are held in numerous public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of London, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Sprengel Museum, CNAP Paris, and Moderna Museet.

Gill’s work continues to be exhibited internationally at leading galleries, festivals, and museums including Victoria Miro Gallery, Agnes B., Christophe Guye Gallery, Archive of Modern Conflict, The Photographers’ Gallery, Arnolfini Bristol, Palais des Beaux-Arts, the Photobook Museum in Cologne, La MEP, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Haus der Kunst. He has presented solo exhibitions at major festivals such as Rencontres d’Arles, the Toronto Photography Festival, Festival Images Vevey, and PHotoEspaña

 

[Zuiko-logist]

Quotes

“Stephen Gill has learnt this: to haunt the places that haunt him. His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of experience; alert, watchful, not overeager, wary of that mendacious conceit, ‘closure’. There is always flow, momentum, the sense of a man passing through a place that delights him. A sense of stepping down, immediate engagement, politic exchange. Then he remounts the bicycle and away. Loving retrievals, like a letter to a friend, never possession… What I like about Stephen Gill is that he has learnt to give us only as much as we need, the bones of the bones of the bones…”

 

[Particular]

I look at an original print of one of his birds every day on the wall of our kitchen. We also have the book, which is beyond great.

 

[filmtwit]

IMG_4702 by J Allen, on Flickr