future projects

Photographer Matthew Pontin recently published in this collaborative book
titled ‘Street Pigeons’. The project was developed by three photographers working alongside New York slam-poet Ainsley Burrows; all making works exploring contemporary society. The result is a neat slice of modern-day life that reveals the serious and humorous issues that appear within everyday culture. Email Matthew about buying a copy through PayPal

Street Pigeons
Gomer Press
Burrows, Parker, Pontin & Redfern
ISBN 0-9545600-2-7

SlinkPhoto is an international photography group enhancing the potentialities for collaboration.

Rotate Project: Rotate existed as the first international collaborative project that will enable the emergence of slinkphoto. The collaboration and potential exhibition will be a collection of works from three photographers, from opposite sides of the globe, whose work will be collated and redistributed in a way that disentangles the notions of author as the key motivator behind the interpretation of the work.

Based in the UK, Spain and Australia the artists photograph and mail unprocessed film to one of the other artists, in a three-way circle. Individuals will then print, scan and edit the images from these unfamiliar negatives and put the work up at www.slinkphoto.org for discussion and further editing.

contact me if interested in collaborative projects or photographic commissions




	UNRAVELLING PHOTOGRAPHY Michael West Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight Sat 6th May until Sat 10th June 2006 Daniel Boetker-Smith - Karen Grainger - Fergus Heron - Matthew Pontin The general notion of ‘unravelling’, put simply, means to pull apart or to investigate; this act is invariably methodical and leads to answers of one kind or another. This conception of unravelling is somewhat true for this show, but there is another kind of unravelling that exists alongside this first definition; a sort that is, if you will, a downward spiral, out of control and leading not to answers or clarity but to further confusion. This second kind is best described as an aporia, an interminable and irresolvable question.
	Exploring the Fal & Helford, The Fowey and The Red River delivered by CAN Project (Cornwall Artist Network) Several artists will be commissioned by CAN Project to explore and develop a body of work that responds to the three river catchments of The Fal & Helford, The Fowey and The Red River. Each artist will explore these locations and begin to understand these unique environments. This stage of the project will allow artists to make discoveries and build relationships with people that work and live by these rivers as well as experiencing the geography of the rivers. The work from these commissions will be published in a book supported by Cycleau and the knowledge obtained will form the basis to run community workshops in these areas. This will enable different social groups within each of the areas to explore a sense of place within their local environments, through creative processes and encourage the removal of social barriers by providing opportunities for the young, ethnic minorities and disadvantaged people to explore and express their sense of place within the environment through artwork
	Photographer Matthew Pontin recently published in this collaborative book titled ‘Street Pigeons’. The project was developed by three photographers working alongside New York slam-poet Ainsley Burrows; all making works exploring contemporary society. The result is a neat slice of modern-day life that reveals the serious and humorous issues that appear within everyday culture. Email Matthew about buying a copy through PayPal Street Pigeons Gomer Press Burrows, Parker, Pontin & Redfern ISBN 0-9545600-2-7
SlinkPhoto is an international photography group enhancing the potentialities for collaboration.	Rotate Project: Rotate existed as the first international collaborative project that will enable the emergence of slinkphoto. The collaboration and potential exhibition will be a collection of works from three photographers, from opposite sides of the globe, whose work will be collated and redistributed in a way that disentangles the notions of author as the key motivator behind the interpretation of the work. Based in the UK, Spain and Australia the artists photograph and mail unprocessed film to one of the other artists, in a three-way circle. Individuals will then print, scan and edit the images from these unfamiliar negatives and put the work up at www.slinkphoto.org for discussion and further editing.

		contact me if interested in collaborative projects or photographic commissions