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Peter Coles Bsc Dip Ed FRPS, FIPF, EFIAP is a member of Wilmslow Guild Audio Visual Group.
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Escape from the Battles of Trafalgar Squares
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Peter Coles started making "Joiners" in 1976
when a member of Windsor Photographic Club.
He then saw David Hockney's work and was in
some ways elated and in others depressed. Some distinguished artist
treated this way of looking at the world seriously. He then read more
about Hockney and was influenced by his thoughts.
The image of Saltburn is one version of an
entry for a challenge by David Hockney to use photography without the
Western view of perspective. It came third in the challenge which was
exhibited in the Museum of Photography Film and Television in Bradford in
1986.
Peter's Fellowship of the RPS in Pictorial
Prints was gained through a submission of 18 such montages. "On
Reflection" - the fisherman on the River Thames is one of the North
"Orphans of The North Rejoice" is a 3D montage with pieces of photographs
twirled into different shapes and stuck on the background of the
gravestone.
The idea behind making such works is basically
that we see things more this way than the eye of the camera sees these
things. Our memory carries many images which give us a picture of the
whole; it does not just rely on an instant at say 125th of a second. If we
put more time into the making of images, then our viewers may give us back
more time looking at them.
Peter's photographic images these days are
most often used in AV Sequences and, of course, digits allow him to play
his seeing games more readily than when he had to cut them all up with a
deckle-edged guillotine. Virtually all the images in his Sequences have
been manipulated in Photoshop to try and achieve some of the ideas
expressed within this philosophy.
Two examples of such images are shown in this
brief view of his work.