photography, musings, and obsessions

Barbara Taylor is a UK based artist with a Master of Arts degree in Photography. Her work incorporates the act of collecting and the everyday to create an autobiographical story. All photographs © Barbara Taylor unless stated. Please do not reproduce without permission.

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Robert Throb Young - Northampton c1989

RIP and say hi to Nikki for me.

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What have I been doing for the past 2 years? Well I have been busy. The photo above is the halfway point of my current project. I have a lot of free time over the summer so this year I will share it's progress with you.

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Halloween Teens. Looking very fashionable for Zombies!

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My work is featured on the Seven by Five website so follow the link and please tweet, share, comment if you like it! Thanks!

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As part of our Sponsume fundraising, we were offering signed Polaroids of Portslade. I think I have mentioned before how Portslade reminds me of where I grew up in NY a bit, in that there was nothing to do as a teen except go to the park, or the mall. There is really something about the place I can't figure out, but when I am there, with The Teen, I have her model as me, as I was at her age.

This is one of the Polaroids from the shoot that didn't get sent to the Sponsors.

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The theme of this year's Brighton Photo Biennial is 'Occupy' and I thought it would be a good idea to set up a series of pop up photography exhibitions throughout Brighton and Hove to 'occupy' public spaces with photography.

Please follow the link to find out more about these artist run pop-up exhibitions to coincide with Brighton Photo Biennial 2012.        

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Photos now for sale at Instacanv.as

I have decided to make a 'diffusion line' as it were of my photography to sell at more affordable prices than what my work sells for in galleries.

I have selected some of my most popular images that I thought would look good on canvas, and they are available now via Instacanv.as. There are 3 different sizes to chose from, and the prices are set by them. 

Please have a look, and if you like what you see, please share! :) I really think there is 'something for everybody' and hopefully you will find something that speaks to you as much as it spoke to me in creating it.

Thanks!

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We are fundraising through Sponsume to raise money to realise our intergenerational community art project. We have applied for Arts Council funding, and as part of our fundraising drive are using Sponsume to ensure the exhibition is a success. Please have a look, and share this link. We realise that not everyone has money to spare, but if you share, it might reach someone who does.

Thanks!

Barbara

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I see it as my 'diffusion line', and a great way of providing a more moderately priced way of purchasing my work (as opposed to paying higher priced work from a gallery). I've tried to put some new things there, as well as some old favourites that you might enjoy.

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And there is the proof. The girl wearing too much blue eyeshadow is me, aged 18/19, in an apartment on 2nd Ave off St Marks Place. I'm glad there's a bit of that girl still in me, I haven't lost my NY punk rock 'fuck you'. At all. There's a LOT I can say about those days, but maybe better left for another blog post. Just enjoy Harley's words for now. 

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@intervisual It wasn't a party...just hanging out.

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Photography project blog

Please follow this new photography blog from the Historia collective in Brighton, UK (which I am part of). We will be documenting our latest project, ReMap, by sharing news and images relating to our experiences in developing and executing it.  We are also on Twitter , so follow us there for the most up to date news on our upcoming projects and exhibitions. 

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Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault

This quote pretty much sums up what I photograph and why. I saw it in a magazine at the dentist office yesterday and just had to share it.

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Images from the Mnemosyne exhibition at Menier Gallery, London. Photos by Peter Bennett. Did you make it to the show? Would love to know what you thought.

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Mnemosyne brings together the practice of nine emerging contemporary photographic artists to explore notions surrounding the photograph as a personification of memory.

Artists

Peter Bennet

Barbara Taylor

Luke Hamblin

Michael Vogt

Michael C. Hughes

Eva Vovtsaki

Tobias Slater-Hunt (Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Award nominee)

Lynn Weddle

Lindsey Smith

The work collected in Mnemosyne critically engages diverse contemporary themes and issues. Collectively the show explores the importance of photography as a contemporary art form and the role photographic art within a modern technological world.

Menier Gallery

51 Southwark Street London SE1 1RU United Kingdom 

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Please visit and say hi.

Mnemosyne

Group Photography Show

Menier Gallery

51 Southwark Street London SE1 1RU

Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 December

Mnemosyne brings together the practice of nine emerging contemporary photographic artists to explore notions surrounding the photograph as a personification of memory.

The work collected in Mnemosyne critically engages diverse contemporary themes and issues. Collectively the show explores the importance of photography as a contemporary art form and the role photographic art within a modern technological world.

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Montmartre, Paris

I took these photos a few days ago while in Paris to see Ryan Adams play at Le Trianon. 

I like getting a melancholy darkness to my images, and sometimes when I am out walking, I see things that remind me of paintings I have seen, and I try to recreate that. I think one of the advantages about shooting digital is that you can use the noise to create images that don't look like photographs, but have a quality more like a painting.

I like working with the lighting that is available and playing with the settings until I get the right atmosphere. I don't like doing post production work on images - I think the more you can do in camera, the truer to the image. The only post production work I do is getting rid of spots and maybe cropping. I have no reservations about cropping images. I know some photographers feel that cropping is an abomination, but I feel as long as it is the photographer doing it, and making that creative decision it's ok.