Kevin Meredith aka lomokev http://lomokev.com Photographer, Teacher and Author Fri, 11 May 2012 13:02:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Brighton Open House 2012 http://lomokev.com/blog/brighton-open-house-2012/ http://lomokev.com/blog/brighton-open-house-2012/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 13:02:52 +0000 lomokev http://lomokev.com/?p=3153 During every weekend in May, I will exhibiting at an Open House exhibition at 21a Brunswick Square in Hove along with ten other artists. As usual I am exhibiting with my wife Rockcake who will have jewellery on show. Most of the work in the show is of a photographic nature to it but there is print making, illustration and sculpture on show too.

I am not going to go into details of everyone's work but write about a few. Rob Orchard is showing a limited edition poster of his Brighton Pub project. On Sunday the 13th and Saturday 19th there will be an opportunity to get Dollerized by Lisa Bamford. Check my Dollerized portrait below to see what that entails. Lisa and I are also showing large range of block mounted prints.

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Continue reading →]]> http://lomokev.com/blog/interviewed-by-bbc-for-instagram/feed/ 2 Create in Brighton winners announced at Coalition http://lomokev.com/blog/create-in-brighton-winners-announced-at-coalition/ http://lomokev.com/blog/create-in-brighton-winners-announced-at-coalition/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:06:09 +0000 lomokev http://lomokev.com/?p=3105 The first “Create in Brighton” prize winners were announced on March 29th by judges Lawrence Zeegen and myself, live on stage at Coalition. Create in Brighton was a creative competition that has been running since the beginning of the year. Hundreds of entries from people with a connection to Brighton were whittled down to thirty finalists by Lawrence Zeegen, Sarah Arnett and myself.

Event photos taken by James Kendall

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Below is the resulting movie, it's made from 730 frames displayed at 10 frames a second, you see roughly 3 days every second. The sound track was specially crafted by Malcolm Goldie. Watch the beard grow!

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Source have just relaunched there website, not only does it look nice it's also really easy to find older content. I have been putting my montage portraits on my blog, Flickr, and Tumblr but I only upload the images. Now you read the interviews that source have conducted with featured people all in one place on my author page on their site here.

This month features a male which is pretty unusual so I was really happy they picked the rather dapper Harry Watts fellow photographer and friend. Check him out and the other candidates below.

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Brighton Source magazine spreads for December - January

As per usually you can see the all the images I shoot for Source in November below. You can always keep an eye on my montage portraits on my fragmented portraits tumblr or in my montage portraits flickr set.

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