Exhibition at Sock Gallery 29th October - 5th December 2015

Over the last 25 years I’ve exhibited my work all over England, and also a few places in the USA, but never in my home town of Loughborough. Encouraged by my parents, who still live in the family home, I approached the Sock Gallery in Loughborough Town Hall over 18 months ago and was fortunate to be given this slot in their calendar. I have fond memories of Loughborough Town Hall having seen Def Leppard play here in 1979.

The gallery here is a wonderful place to show work; clean, light, well lit and well looked after. They even added vases of flowers which seemed to compliment the colours in the work! The 3 day exhibition turnaround is impressive; one day for the old show to be taken down, the next for filling and painting of holes, the third for hanging of the show. As an artist I was also impressed with the efficiency of the Sock gallery staff; communication was very good and Excel worksheet which self-generated picture labels and a sales sheet was well thought out.  

To complement this exhibition I'm independently offering a series of workshops around the weekend of Loughborough Fair from Town Centre venues.

13th Nov (4.30pm-7pm) ‘Painting with Light’ 
Gain the skills and confidence to photograph the dark nights of Winter and the bright moving lights of the fair - £25 per photographer (please bring a torch swinging friend at no extra cost) or £30 per family.

14th Nov (10am-5pm) ‘Digital Camera Skills’

A practical days workshop learning to gain control over your camera, shutter speeds, aperture, ISO, flash etc, setting it up for optimum quality under any given lighting, and making better pictures through composition. Includes a tour of Dave’s exhibition. £50 limited to small group.

15th Nov (10am-1pm) ‘iPhoneography’

Learn how to use your iPhone's camera to take professional looking photographs and enhance those images on the go. £25 limited to small group.

Booking in advance is essential for these workshops contact Dave for further information and booking on:
www.greengallery.co.uk 
workshops@greengallery.co.uk

PRESS RELEASE for forthcoming Solo Exhibition

CONSTRUCTED PHOTOGRAPHS – solo exhibition by Dave Green
Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall
29th October to 5th December 2015
Monday-Saturday from 9am-5pm

Wreck of MS Johanna interior

Loughborough born and bred, Dave Green, went on to study Photography in Wales, taught the subject in Northampton, and now lives the life of an artist in North Devon. He has a major exhibition of his work at the Sock Gallery in Loughborough from 28th Oct to the 6th Dec, and although he has exhibited his images in many parts of this country and America this is his first show ever in his home town. Dave's current photographic work is themed on Sea Caves, Shipwrecks and the Rocky Shore. This show titled 'Constructed Photographs’ is a retrospective of his work from the last 20 years demonstrating the development of his technique from last century's 35mm film triptychs to his present day stitching of multiple digital files.

All of the images in this exhibition are constructed from two or more photographs. In the 1990’s Dave was drawn towards panoramas which he achieved by shooting consecutive photographic frames and printing them from a huge colour enlarger in totally blacked out darkroom. With the birth of a new century he embraced the new photographic technology of digital, still in it’s infancy, and set out to make photographs that he could not have realised with film. Stitching and seamless blending of pictures has been his trademark, but unlike many of the manipulated fantasy images seen today, Dave’s is a search for reality, and strives to construct his images truthfully to his memory of place.

Key Hole Cave, Hartland

This image 'Key Hole Cave, Hartland' is an example of his current digital work and is constructed from more than 100 separate photographs, of different exposure, angle of view and framing, all from a fixed point to give the detail from the deepest blacks to the brightest highlights in this extremely high contrast scene.

Dave Green 2015