Leeds Gallery
The Leeds Gallery is located near Leeds Bus station
and displays commercial work of photographs of Leeds and Yorkshire including
both professional and amateur photographers work. There is quite a range of
work in the gallery including Underscapes, Landscapes, buildings and bridges,
rooftops, coastlines, people and objects. The gallery itself was very well lit,
filled with natural light from the large windows however, this did create quite
a few reflections on the prints in glass frames. The range of artists and work
was interesting but, The work seemed to be quite randomly placed in some places
and I felt that when looking at particular pieces of work my eye was distracted
by others.
The work that particularly inspired some ideas for my
Location project was by both Karl Wilson and Graham Cook.
Karl Wilson's panorama shot "Sunset Over
Leeds" captures the city just as the sun is going down. I like this
particular image because it gives a unusual perspective of the city that not
many people will see, also the way that some of the tall buildings scattered
across the landscape peak just over the horizon suggesting how the city i still
growing.
Graham Cook's work on the other hand is more about patterns
within buildings and architecture identifying everyday locations we see and
capturing a unique perspective on them, transforming it into art. The image
that stood out for me from Cook's work was the image "The Way Home"
which reminds me of Stieglitz work the steerage with the use of patterns and
shapes to compose the image using the rule of thirds.
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