Art Photography
& Film by Trevor Dingle
I look at the objects and views around me and places them
in a frame with a camera.
I prefer to use film in medium or large format cameras.
I have built several pinhole cameras to be in control of
the entire process.
Thinking
about the moving image is a little different to still
photography, but it is still
photography.
I
now concentrate on photography as my main art practice.
I learned the art of the camera and darkroom as a teenager
and first exhibited when aged seventeen. I use a variety of
cameras, including traditional film in formats from Super 8
to large format, and more recently some digital capture
with a digital SLR.
I have a passion for alternative processes like developing
old film in Caffenol a home made developer.
For years I concentrated on black and white and printed all
my own in the darkroom, and still prefer black and white
for many subjects such as portraits and buildings. I often
scan the negatives now and produce ink jet or C-Type prints
with a minimum of digital manipulation.
His colour work concentrates on the sea, landscape,
close-ups of the natural world using a macro lens.
He is constantly on the lookout for unusual left behind
items for his body of work 'Dechets trouve's'
Film
Making
Trevor has been busy with cine cameras for a while now and
having some success with his short films. During 2016 &
2017 he has had films selected and screened in events in
Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield and Italy.
He is passionate about film, and uses either Super 8 or the
really old wind up Standard/Regular 8 cameras.
Here is a still taken from 'York Mansions' a film of a
crumbling block in central London which he has photographed
and filmed over several years as it has decayed, and will
be regenerated. This film was taken on long expired
Kodachrome and hand developed by Trevor, he chose to leave
the film as a negative to keep the warm colours which
suited the subject matter.
Still
from 'York Mansions.'
His short film 'A day in the life of a not so eager beaver'
announced amongst the winners of the Lomography Ten and One
competition reviewing entries to various Lomography
competitions in 2016.
Still from 'A day in the life of a not so eager beaver'
Here
are links to his films on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/user41420512/videos
He has literally thousands of black and white prints and
negatives and colour transparencies waiting to be scanned.
Looking at these again is proving a rewarding exercise.
He has recently photographed events in the Hull City of
Culture 2017 and is a regular contributor to Alamy.com
He has a large collection of coastal images, photographs of
London in black and white and photographs of his adopted
local area taken in the last twenty years.
Municipal Almshouses, Hull
Beverley Minster with rabbits