Apr
21
Introducing, Matt Gibbons!
Hello all, my name is Matt Gibbons and I’ll be working alongside Mike over the next week as part of my Photography & Digital Imaging degree at Leeds Met university. I’ll give you all a bit of background on me first before I do some shameless self-promotion! I was born and grew up in Cornwall which is probably where I got my love of the outdoors from, I enjoy surfing, skating and kite boarding when I find the time. My dad is a keen amateur photographer and it was him who first introduced me to it, he also bought me my first SLR (an old school Pentax K1000 which I still love because it never breaks not matter how badly I treat it!) I’ve been doing photography for about ten years now (although I’ve only got in to it seriously in the last five years) I studied for an A level in photography at Truro College, which I have to say was a fantastic course (no, I’m not on their payroll) because it gave me the freedom to really explore what is possible with a camera. Since then I’ve flicked erratically from one genre to the next but I’ve now settled down on landscape photography as my specialty. For my degree dissertation I’m writing about ‘How the birth of digital media has affected landscape photography’, six thousand word essays are not fun in case you were wondering! I like to think that my work is quite experimental and contemporary, often merging formats and trying to do something new and original. I recently did an urban landscape project using Polaroid film in a large format camera, the unpredictability of the format was its main attraction as well as its unique colour cast, unfortunately Polaroid decided to stop making their film in February this year so thats the last time I’ll be able to do this sort of thing. You can find a few examples of this project (as well as some others) on my, as yet unfinished, website: www.MDGPhotography.co.uk or email me at Matt@MDGPhotography.co.uk