Guest Lecture: David George

David showed us series of his work from 2008 up until the current year. His landscape photography is often shot at night, capturing an uncanny, sublime, personal and political medium. 

• Dissolution series, 2008
• Enclosure, Badlands and Borders, 2009
• Shadows of Doubt
• Backwater series, 2012
• Albedo series, 2013
• Hackney by Night, 2015
• Nine Square Kilometers, 2017

David mentioned how he uses very minimal manipulation unless necessary. Otherwise he believes you should be able to catch an image with editing even if it takes time to get the right image. A few of the students disagreed however I didn't. I suppose you could call it laziness because I have very minimal knowledge on the editing side of things. But really I just enjoy taking photos I've never wanted to sit there and edit a photo unless necessary. I believe in the beauty of the image and like David said how the time you take on getting the right image should be enough to not then sit and edit it.

He also prefers working in prime lens' and says it's "lazy" if you use standard. If you know what image you want you should be able to achieve it with a prime lens.

I found his images very painterly, but beautiful. However he said that this is not something he wants in his work as he prefers contemporary. When he would pick which images fit into his series sometimes it would be down to the fact that they looked painted. I thought the ones, especially in his Backwater series looked incredible with the painted feel to them.