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Highly recommend Africa State of Mind at #impressionsgallery in Bradford. Really challenges Western stereotypes of African people. Particularly love the work exploring gender and sexual identity. #EkowEshun #Africa #bradford https://www.instagram.com/p/BvplizmFg_s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rfesn68fslkp

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CONTENTS

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SENIOR PHOTOS - or search “impressionssenior” to browse

PORTRAITS - or search “impressionsportrait” to browse

FAMILY PHOTOS - or search “impressionsfamily” to browse

EVENTS - or search “impressionsevents” to browse

BIRTHDAYS - or search “impressionsbirthdays” to browse

MATERNITY - or search “impressionsmaternity” to browse

NATURAL WORLD - or search “impressionsnature” to browse

LIGHT PAINT - or search “impressionslightpaint” to browse

LONG EXPOSURE - or search “impressionslongexposure” to browse

ANIMALS - or search “impressionslongexposure” to browse

SPECIALIZED / REQUESTS - or search “impressionsspecialized”

MY FAVORITE PHOTOS - or search “impressionsfavorites” to browse

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Hunters – David Chancellor Exhibition

David Chancellors ‘Hunters’ exhibition explores the relationship between humans and animals whereby Chancellor spend a 6 year long period documenting tourist trophy hunting across several South African countries. His documentation from these years are proudly exhibited in the Impressions Gallery in Bradford in which we visited.  His emotive and moving images sparked meaning and depth within the theme whereby challenging the perceptions of the viewer. Shot on simple colour film, Chancellor used a 80mm Mamiya 7 camera to capture a close relationship with his subjects; this allowed him to provoke raw and true meanings. Each of his images has been taken from a long shot whereby using the surroundings of the subject to interact with the narrative intention of each, this allows the audience to feel as though they are a part of the hunting scene allowing the viewer to engage with the facts of the narrative. His images communicate a true representation of the hunting record yet some images have been staged and positioned in order to highlight and indicate the main aspects of the subject’s day-to-day life, for example males being posed with their hunted animals seen as trophies of pride and achievement. Chancellors images are difficult to look at from a viewer perspective due to the complete rawness of the images, no animal or human has been covered up to show this activity in a more inviting manner, Chancellor has shot everything aspect of his project as real as possible I order to create a deeper and meaningful outcome. The images within this exhibition are initially thought provoking and intense. This is the reason in which his images are so successful, they show a side of trophy hunting in which has never been seen before, leaving an emotional and challenging impact upon the audience. Chancellor set out to document the sub-Saharan tourist hunting industry to give the audience an insight into how big this industry is and how so many are coming over from Europe and America in order to participate in such activity. His images show how families get together to capture animals in the wildlife focusing on a wide range of ages and genders in order to show the diversity of the project. Whereby communicating to the audience that hunting is a much bigger industry than once thought. Chancellor intended to communicate how innocent animals are put through pain by such hunters without choice or a chance to fight for themselves naturally resulting in extinction. This is showcased through the rawness and explicit images of dead animals highlighting he harsh reality of hunting upon such innocent species. 

The work of Chancellor has been presented formally around the gallery in which creates a linear narrative of the six years in which he spent documenting, his bold, strong images create a powerful message to the audience against the simple white frames. This creates an initial connection between the audience and the subject matter. Creating the relationship intended by Chancellor. The size of the work presented has an impact upon the initial reaction to the photographic messages. The larger scale work allows the audience to engage with the real life details and textures of the environment and surroundings allowing them to become fully involved within the narrative.  Due to the business and complexity of the images, small prints would be more difficult to engage with creating a more challenging view for the audience.  Making it harder to gather information from the subject content. However the bigger the image creates a more powerful and dominant impact upon the initial reflection of the meaning. Within the exhibition Chancellor has displayed sequences of images showing a chronological narrative throughout. For example three images in which showed a type of practice area for the hunters whereby each image included a plastic animal target. This set of images created sinister vibe making it slightly unsettling for the audience. These images are reflective against the real hunting images and create relationships between the two. 

These images taken from the exhibition showcase the raw, deep and emotion provoking narrative of the trophy hunting record.