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Jonathan Stead
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New Blood Art Statement
With work in many international private collections Jonathan Stead works with a variety of cameras; often handmade or adapted for his needs, he tries to capture images that portray a subject in its most elemental form. The cameras he produces allow him to work intuitively which allows him the freedom to capture the very essence of a subject without relying on, or being limited by, technology.
All the images are printed to archival standards using 100% cotton rag paper with pigment inks resulting in an archival image. Prints are in limited editions of no more than 12 and are signed and numbered on the back.
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Artist Statement
My work is low edition and hand crafted."One of the charms of photography is that the operator discovers that he has depicted many things he had no notion of at the time.' Fox Talbot - 160 years ago.
All my work is underpinned by the analogue creation process. I believe photography only exists in the physical, much of my work plays on the contradiction that we often imagine photography to be a two dimensional medium - and increasingly a screen based one.
I am drawn to creating work that is inherently physical and that shows that is has been created by someone rather than simply printed through a machine.
I work with a variety of cameras, processes and techniques including pinhole, single-element lens, large format and hand-made or adapted cameras. I often create new, or adapt existing cameras to achieve a particular image or series of images. My cameras are an artists working tools, carefully fashioned to accomplish a specific task – no more, no less.'
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