Research undertaken during an MA Photography programme of study emerges within this self-published book 'Distance and Distraction'. Pontin's images combine to re-evaluate the notion of the travel experience in relation to memory. The photographs exist as fragments of reality, exploring the motives behind image-making to remember an experience. The book has the pace of a journey as varying levels of dialogue emerge from the editing of the sequences within this publication.
for more information contact mattpontin@hotmail.com
MA Photography graduates (of 2005) from University College Falmouth collaborated on the exhibition and publication 'Intervision'. Bea Grist, Sergio Fava, Becky Joiner, Sonia McDuff, Elizabeth Orcutt and Matthew Pontin investigate a variety of themes referencing their chosen medium. Their work is introduced in an essay by Nancy Roth examining the notion of vision within the context of the artists' work.
see
www.intervisionphoto.co.uk
for more information
email mattpontin@hotmail.com
to buy direct using paypal (cost £5)
ISBN 0-9542955-9-5
Matthew Pontin recently published within 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.
more info at www.streetpigeons.com
email mattpontin@hotmail.com
to buy direct using paypal (cost £7.50)
Published by Gomer Press
Burrows, Parker, Pontin & Redfern
ISBN 0-9545600-2-7
'Sense of Place' project emerged in partnership with The Isle of Wight Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to help draw awareness to the relationship human activity has upon the natural environment. Existing as a community art project, led by artist and Island resident Tim Johnson, Landscape Reflections saw workshops and commissions push the idea of what it is to live around an AONB and to produce work for a final publication and exhibition at the Quay Arts Centre, Newport. The publication reveals a variety of expressive forms; from oil painting, walking drawings, sculpture and photography to poetry and use of imagery produced by primary school children. For more info on the project look at www.wightaonb.org.uk.
Published by Making Space - ISBN 190099917X
Margam
Park was the ancestral home of the Talbots, of whom Henry Fox Talbot
was a pioneering photographer. Some of the earliest photographic images
were made there. Steel made Margam Park, whose gothic mansion looks
down on the town of Margam and the works formerly owned by the Talbots.
Today, it is Margam Country Park, owned by the local authority and a
leisure facility open to the public - and to the workers of those steelworks.
A feature of the old park was its ha-ha, a ditch which creates an invisible
barrier between mansion and estate. Through stunningly produced images
this book revisits Margam, so significant in the birth of photography,
and portrays it afresh utilising contemporary Landscape idioms. The
photographers also explore past class distinctions and the changing
social history of both town and estate, a subject addressed in words
by contributor and co-editor, Karen Ingham, and at greater length by
Hugh Adams, leading writer and cultural critic who returns to the scene
of his childhood to discuss its artistic and social heritage. The result
is a unique and beautiful journey through the history of a place of
immense significance in industrial, social and photographic history.
Published by Ffotogallery
and Seren
ISBN 1-85411-330-5
