Email:                                     liamsmithphotography@hotmail.co.uk
Website:
www.liam-smith.net

Statement

Title: Presentiment

A premonition; waiting for an event to happen. The photographs themselves suggest of an event about to unfold, they have a replication of the 'freeze -frame' quality that is naturally associated with moving images.
When a film stops, a narrative sequence which has a definite past and future is left poised and potentially stuck forever in the present, creating a tension and anxiety between the interruption of the rhythm of narrative and the viewer.

Rather than capturing the ‘pregnant moment’, or ‘decisive moment’, the work aims to  create an ‘indecisive moment’, where the content of the shot suggests that it stems from the narrative of contemporary cinema, alluding to the presence of a past and future, yet offering only a fragment of the entire narrative. The assumption of narrative within the work allows the viewer to experience the past and future of the film in the present.

The piece aims to involve the viewer, insofar as each individual possesses their own knowledge and experiences of classic and contemporary cinema. This experience of the cinematic aesthetic and narrative allows the viewer to fabricate their own possible past and future events of the film, opening up the concept that no two people will experience this piece in the same way.

Education

BA Hons Photography Nottingham Trent University

Denbigh High School 6th Form
3x A-Levels
1x As-Level

Denbigh High School
12x GCSE’s A-C

Key Experience

• June 18th-22nd 2009 Selected for Free Range 2009 Art & Design Degree Show, The Old Truman Brewery, London
• June 1st-12th 2009 Exhibition: Photoradar @ 5 Trent House. A collaborative exhibition highlighting the photographic talent at Nottingham Trent University
• Korova Films Production: I was invited to shoot the stills for a local made film entitled 'Coffee'.
• GoDine.co.uk: over the course of a year I photographed restaurant interiors in the Nottingham area, part of my job was to liaise with restaurant owners and co-ordinate a team of writers and photographers. I was also responsible for retouching the images for the website
• Boxing photographer: freelance and for britishboxing.net
• Commended image, digital camera magazine photographer of the year, image published and exhibited in Mall Gallery, London
• University fashion and graphics projects: several studio and location based shoots for students products and catwalk show
• Denbigh School prospectus: my old secondary school invited me to shoot the images for their latest prospectus.
• Volunteer photographer; Water for Kids Campaign. ‘a small charity, set up by Environmental Health Officers, which provides safe water, sanitation and health education for children and communities in developing countries’  photographed an awareness meeting in the local community.
• Images sold on England Badminton Hotshots website