Guest Lecture- John Myers

Today, on Wednesday 29th February we had a Guest Lecture, John Myers who is an Artist after doing a degree in Art where he specialised in Sculpture and has had a successful career out of building sculptures and having them exhibited in numerous Galleries. As well as Sculpture work he has done a bit of Photography which too, has been successful and has had his main work exhibited at Galleries across the Midlands.



One of Myers projects that he spoke about during the lecture was named 'Middle England' which has shown to be his most successful piece of work, which consisted of a number of portraits of individuals as well as famillies living in Stourbridge and the black country, but most of his images are of people he knows. The main people that John Myers looked up to and inspired him were Diane Arbus, August Sander, E.J Belocq and Lewis Hine.

His work is mainly shot with a 5x4 format camera, where he uses natural light instead of artificial lighting. He also likes to shoot his photographs in a documentary sort of style, so he captures the people in their natural setting without having to set up props or any other extra objects.

http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/495/middle_england/


 As well as portraiture he also did a series of photos which were of televisions and substations, which I didn't really understand why he wanted to photograph these objects. I much prefer his portraits as they have more meaning, and can tell more of a story with the expression of the people or by how they are acting in the picture, due to him taking natural photographs.