Blog Blurb

Blog Blurb


a matter of urban light is a design blog with the aim of exhibiting truly inspirational projects in landscape architecture and lighting within the urban environment. This blog will be created in tangent with my third year study of landscape architecture at Kingston University in London with the aim of hopefully moving into a career based on lighting in landscape architecture and the built environment.


i Hope the Blog is useful and interesting.


Aaron Carpenter


“Lighting design goes one step further, Setting moods and radiating aspirations.” Clare Lowther and Sarah Schultz


Precedents

Precedents

Thursday, 27 January 2011

National Portrait Gallery Taylor Wessing Prize

Huntress with a Buck by David Chancellor


Tic Tac and Tootsie by Jeffrey Stockbridge


Merel by Clare Shilland



Images sourced from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11721591


The National Portrait Gallery is currently hosting the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize winning entries. The competition had a lot of entries I think it was well over six thousand. The exhibition contains sixty contemporary photos taken by amateurs and professionals of all ages and backgrounds. The photos within the exhibition have all been taken by the artists whilst exploring some really interesting themes.

The top image is of the winning entry by David Chancellor entitled Huntress with a Buck. This image does conjure up the feeling of it being a great photography shot but then again I am struggling to understand the appeal to it that obviously the judges saw. I had the same feeling with many of the images within the exhibition they all seemed a little cliched with similar subjects and themes. All the images had been taken beautifully but my main criticism would be that they didn't feel original or shocking enough.

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