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Exhibition Structures Up Today!

This morning I assisted the very able Conor Kershaw and Ross Waller in constructing the mounting structure for the prints. You can see a couple of iPhone shots below.

Tomorrow I will be heading over the hill to collect the prints, finished in record time by Grant & Joseph Muir and the team at Big Image Print in Wellington.

Friday morning we will be laying out and mounting the exhibition ready for the official opening. Then the work is released into the wild and I hope you will come and see it if you are able to.

Conor & Ross showing me how it is done!

: One of the frames up in rough.

Exhibition has gone to press!

Logo of Adobe Photoshop. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yes, it is true. The files have been passed to Joseph at Big Image Print in Wellington to be printed.

It has been a marathon spent immersed in Adobe Creative Cloud, most particularly in Photoshop and In Design; if I was unfamiliar with the nuances of those two programs before I began this project, I most certainly am familiar with them now! There has to be no faster way to learn something than doing something like this, which takes hours almost every day and is completely immersive in comparison to going on a software course or attending night classes etc – the usual result of weekly courses for me at least has always been that I forget what we did last week and spend half of the new week catching up with that again!Invitations to the exhibition are being mailed out today as well and I will post the exhibition invitation up here in pdf to invite anyone reading here to come along if they are able and see the end result too.

As I type, the wind is howling outside, so fingers crossed that that has all died down to a pleasant breeze by Friday.I am already gestating next year’s projects and travel schedules, which will see me back in Cambodia in July 2014 so if you or your organisation has image needs in SE Asia, please get in touch.

Exhibition Update (revolutionblog.net)

Exhibition Update

The first two batches of files have gone to the printers now for proofs!

The final batch is in production now and will be with the printers on Monday, along with any adjustments required as a result of viewing the proofs.

The amount of work involved in preparing the images for an exhibition like this is prodigious and easily overlooked by the viewer. I have been fortunate to have the expert Photoshop skills and experience of John Slater of The Photo Workshop (see website here) as my Retoucher to help me make the prints and layouts as good as they need to be. If you need to learn Photoshop, John runs excellent courses – details on his website. Between us, I would say that John and I will have put in at least 100 hours of work in Photoshop and InDesign to get the files ready for printing. On several occasions we have worked late into the night and lost a great deal of sleep. We will both be having a glass of something next week when the final prints are completed, that is for sure.

So my creation is now in the capable hands of Joseph at Big Image Print in Wellington as the next set of hands in the process of bringing the work to life for you to view. Come Opening Day, I will be hoping to sleep at last, although I expect I will find something else to worry about such as whether the wind blowing the work away or something….!

Once the dust has settled from the Kokomai exhibition, I will be producing a limited edition book of colour prints from the work. Details to follow but if you would be interested in getting a copy, please feel free to get in touch below.

Also, if you know of any spaces that might be interested in taking the exhibition after Kokomai has finished, please let me know. [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"]

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Phew, it’s been a busy time since I returned from being on the road, I can tell you!

I got back and almost immediately had to head into hospital for some surgery which had been on the cards for a while and of course that means you need time to recuperate, which I have been doing. All is well.

On top of that I have had to select the images for the exhibition and prepare them for the printers. This is a bit different from simply pressing ‘print’ and sending the image to your desktop. The colour profiles are more unusual and the file type different too – the large machines used to print onto plastic board use PDF files as the basis for their work rather than normal image files that photographers usually use.

The good news is that the completed files (produced by me in Adobe InDesign and tidied up for printing by my very able web and design lady Cheryl at Cherylistic) will be in the printer’s hands early next week for proofs.

I am also due to be interviewed on Radio New Zealand next week about the trip and the exhibition. Distance is no barrier if you want to listen in – RNZ is streamed on line at www.radionnz.co.nz and the host is Bryan Crump. I believe that the slot will be Tuesday 24th September at 1910 hrs NZ time.

As if all that was not enough to be going on with, I am working on a refresh of the website too! News to come on that.

The exhibition opens on 17th October and runs for 10 days so anyone in NZ who wants to come along would be most welcome. I intend to produce a book from the trip as well, and to place the exhibition images on line once the Kokomai Festival is over so those not able to come and see it in person will at least be able to get a flavour of it.

I will leave you with one of the images that ALMOST made the cut to get in!

Jeepney, Manila City

Publicity For My Exhibition

In this week’s Wairarapa News, a local paper, there is an article about the Revolution exhibition (scan below – click on it to expand) which I thought I would share with those readers who won’t see the paper!

Great to have such positive media coverage and I am sure that there will be more as we get closer to the event itself.

Wairarapa News Article

A Week To Go

After being on the road for almost 9 weeks, living out of one trusty duffle (thanks, Red Oxx, for keeping my gear safe and sound) and one trusty camera travel bag (a Lowepro Magnum 400AW if anyone wants to know!) the thought of my condensed world suddenly re-expanding to my house, office, kitchen, pantry, car and so on is something I am both welcoming and ambivalent about at the same time.

Rolf Potts, in his great travel book “Vagabonding: The Art Of Long Term Travel”, wrote that coming home was often the hardest part of being away for long periods. I do not recall his exact words – and my copy of the book is in NZ so I hope that he will forgive my paraphrasing – but he said something along the lines of when you get home, no one will care that you got in a fight with a Javanese transvestite or that you were drinking until sunup on a deserted white sand beach with friends you met on a bus just yesterday, because those who were not there have stayed firmly in their Comfort Zones.

My late father encouraged his children to travel widely, believing that it did indeed broaden the mind and was a Good Thing. I’ve always agreed with him and I know that he would have been fascinated by many of the things I would have been able to tell him about this trip. I have no doubt that he would have been interested in playing the new Nick Faldo golf course near Angkor Wat. Such is progress, apparently.

I hope my posts here have allowed readers to travel in their armchairs and share some of the the things I have seen. I’ve still got more shooting to do this week before I leave then 2 months of preparation for the Kokomai Exhibition in October. If you can’t make it to the Exhibition (and it will be worth it!), once the Kokomai festival is over I will be looking for a way to reproduce it online as best as it can be done, so that you can see it too from wherever you are.

Cow Boy
A young Khmer boy brings his family cows home at the end of the working day.

Oops! This Khmer lady was planting rice and slipped over in the mud – she could hardly stop laughing!

Event & Sponsors Revealed!

Martinborough’s Memorial Square where the exhibition will be held. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

OK….drumroll please…..!

I am excited to be allowed to tell you that my exhibition will form part of the inaugural Kokomai Creative Festival here in the Wairarapa. Well known local business Pain & Kershaw are very kindly sponsoring the exhibition and Big Image Print are sponsoring the printing.

The exhibition will be held in the Memorial Square in the centre of Martinborough (see image).

Kokomai is a 10 day festival from 18th to 27th October 2013 bringing a huge range of creative talent to the Wairarapa region, just an hour from Wellington city. I am very grateful to the Trustees and to Heidi, Jenny and Robyn at Storm who are organising it for their support and for getting behind the project at such an early stage in the proceedings. Pain & Kershaw are a local business in Martinborough who have been here almost since the town was founded; David Kershaw and his son Conor are people you can very legitimately call pillars of the community and their generous support of my project is much appreciated. Grant Muir at Big Image Print lives locally as well, although the print shop is in Wellington. He has taken on the technical challenge and much of the cost of producing the large prints for the exhibition so he’s very important to what you will see when you come to view the work in October.

The Press Release can be found here. Kokomai – Revolution! Wheels of Change in SE Asia

English: Location of South Wairarapa District. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Coming To A Bookshelf Near You…Revolution!

I’m pleased to announce that there will be a limited edition book produced from the Revolution exhibition.

The book will be a fine art style volume which will sit well on any photographer or traveller’s bookshelf.

It’s early days but expect an A4 book with high quality printing on quality stock in an edition limit of 100. Pricing will be announced nearer the time. Books will be signed and numbered ‘x/100’. The book will be perfect bound and produced here in New Zealand.

We are just working through the printing specification part of the book now, together with the general concept. Final design will be done once I have returned to NZ in August and had time to work through all the images and select those which will form the exhibition itself.

Further announcements and order details will appear here in due course but anyone wishing to express interest now is welcome to do so.

Exciting Exhibition Reveal Coming Soon!

I had a meeting today with one of the organisers of the event that my exhibition will be part of.

I was very pleased to hear that they have secured full sponsorship for my exhibition to cover all the costs of the exhibition display units, the printing, publicity collateral and so on.

That is a relief for me as I am already bearing the not insubstantial costs of funding a 2 month overseas shoot so to know that other hands are lifting the cost burden for the exhibition is both welcome and very much appreciated.

I will also be given the green light to tell you more about the whole exhibition event and of course the name of the sponsors and so forth very soon, so stay tuned for that – it’s worth waiting for, as it is very exciting stuff.

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