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Stephen Gill (photographer)
British photographer (born 1971)
Stephen Gill (born 1971)[1] is a British experimental, conceptual and documentary photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally along with his books that are a key aspect of his practice.
Publications
[edit]Books by Gill
[edit]- A Book of Field Studies. London: Chris Boot, 2004. ISBN 978-0954281366. Introduction by Jon Ronson. Subjects divided into separate series 'Day Return', 'Trolleys Portraits', 'Lost', and 'Trolleys Portraits'.
- Invisible. 2005. ISBN 0-9549405-0-4.[2]
- Hackney Wick. London: Self-published / Nobody in association with Archive of Modern Conflict, 2005. ISBN 0-9549405-1-2.[3]
- Buried. 2006. ISBN 0-9549405-4-7.
- Archaeology in Reverse.[4]
- London: Self-published / Nobody; Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007. ISBN 0-9549405-5-5. Afterword by Iain Sinclair. Edition of 3000 copies.
- London: Self-published / Nobody; Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007. Special edition in salamander case and including print. Edition of 100 copies.
- Hackney Flowers.
- London: Self-published / Nobody, 2007. ISBN 0-9549405-3-9. Edition of 3500 copies.
- London: Self-published / Nobody, 2007. Special edition made from waste p
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Stephen Gill combines conceptual, experimental and documentary photography, producing work that takes the locality, history and atmosphere of London’s East End as its subject. His images are often concerned with the details of overlooked and discarded places or objects. He often works in series, exploring a working technique and subject in parallel. Alongside working on his photographic series, Gill has been at the forefront of the recent rise in self-publishing, creating innovative and beautifully designed photography books.
The photographs in the series, Talking to Ants were made in East London between 2009 and 2013. They feature objects and creatures that Gill sourced from the local surroundings and placed into the body of his camera, exposing the film and material inside the camera simultaneously. As he has noted:
'I hoped through this method to encourage the spirit of the place to clamber aboard the images and be encapsulated in the film emulsion, like objects embedded in amber. My aim was to evoke the feeling of the area at the same time as describing its appearance as the subject was both in front and behind the camera lens at the same moment. I like to think of these photographs as in-camera photograms in which conflict or harmony has been rando