DESCRIPTION
Technopolis:
Once upon a time the promise of a whole new world opened up — the white-hot technological revolution — driven by rapid innovations in technology, especially electronics, communications and computing, and great expectations. New companies, industries and jobs were created, many old ones changed, and some perished.
In the cities new tall towers of glass reaching to the sky, reflecting the sun, replaced the old smokestacks. Around them lay the jumble of tired, dull and desolate buildings reflecting previous industries and technologies. Gradually the gleaming, bright and colorful establishments of the newcomers interspersed in the decaying heritage.
Eventually, inexorably, the serried ranks of identical buildings of the brave new world colonized green fields, while the individualistic faded grandeur of the old was forgotten and often swept away. New cities, towns and suburbs grew up, populated by conforming rows of ‘little boxes’.
The regimented blocks of industrial parks and warehouses, offices and apartments, little boxes in the ‘burbs, served by their straight silver and golden highways, relentlessly marched on to create Technopolis, leaving behind those who couldn’t or wouldn’t learn and adapt.
This brave new Technopolis is recreated using the artifacts of the time.
AUTHOR
Born and raised in England, but living in California since the late 1980’s, my photographic skills are self-taught through decades of patience and practice. Black and white photography has always been my first love -- the simplicity, elegance, drama, timeliness and richness that it can bring to an image for me drives a more visceral response. I’m excited by the emotional ‘punch’ that black and white images bring in this particular context – the contrasts between light and dark, areas of luminance and tonality, and the abstractions of shapes and forms -- that “special” quality that heightens the emotion and impact of the image.
10th Annual Pollux Awards, 2017: Winner, Fine Art Category: "In English Country Houses"
2nd Charles Dodgson B&W Award, 2017: Finalist: People, Culture & Daily Life, "Haggling at the Goat Market"; Fine Art, "English Medieval Cathedrals"; Portraits, "The Artisans of Hakart"
Prix de la Photographie, Paris, 2017: Honorable Mention, People, "The Artisans of Hakart"
Fine Art Photography Awards, 2016/17: Nominee: Architecture, "English Medieval Cathedrals"; Fine Art, "In English Country Houses"
International Photographer of the Year, 2015: 1st Prize: Architecture, Industrial: "Col. Ward Pumping Station"
American Aperture Awards (Ax3), 2013: 1st Prize, Architecture/Cityscape, "English Medieval Cathedrals"
