Black & White Photography - September 2015 UK

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B+W

EXHIBITIONS

USA

AKRON

ARKRON ART MUSEUM

Until 27 September

Staged

akronartmuseum.org

BRUNSWICK

BOWDOIN COLLEGE

MUSEUM OF ART

Until 27 September

Abelardo Morell: A Mind of Winter

bowdoin.edu

CHICAGO

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Until 11 October

David Hartt: Interval

artic.edu

FORT WORTH

AMON CARTER MUSEUM

Until 14 February 2016

Laura Wilson: That Day

cartermuseum.org

NEW YORK CITY

601 ART SPACE

Until 19 September

From The Ruins

Featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier,

William Eggleston, Luther Price,

Michael Ashkin and more.

601artspace.org

PITTSBURGH

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART

Until 16 October

Teenie Harris: Cars

cmoa.org

PORTLAND

BLUE SKY GALLERY

Until 31 September

Kent Rogowski: Love=Love

Peter Rock: Spells

blueskygallery.org

TUSCON

CENTER FOR CREATIVE

PHOTOGRAPHY

Until 20 September

John Lehr, Lucas Blalock,

Owen Klydd: The Pure Products

of America Go Crazy.

creativephotography.org

All images © David Ingraham

W

hen I first viewed

Ingraham’s work, it

became clear to me

that he approached

creating images much like a

trained analogue photographer,

despite using apps and an

iPhone to make the finished

product. Perhaps this is because

he’s been dabbling in analogue

photography since the age of

nine and enjoyed documenting

his childhood, teens and twenties

with a Minolta SLR that he used

for nearly 20 years.

Music has always been

Ingraham’s first love and he

has been fortunate to make a

living as a professional drummer

for the band Young Dubliners

for many years. He admits he

feels blessed to have been able

to make a living as a musician

for so long, and loves what he

does. ‘But it inevitably becomes

a job after a while; a great job

but a job nonetheless,’ he says.

Comparatively, he considers

photography: ‘a purely creative

endeavour and even a form of

escape’. And so he tries to keep

the two worlds separate.

Ingraham’s transition from

analogue to iPhone was a gradual

one. After shooting film and

working in the darkroom for

years, he began using a digital

camera while still scanning film

negatives and working on them

in Photoshop. He then started

dabbling with the iPhone while

shooting with plastic cameras.

By 2012, the iPhone became

his primary camera. He recalls,

‘Once I bought my first iPhone

and realised that it was the

ultimate travel friendly camera,

and I had it on me at all times,

and that I could do everything I

needed with it – shoot, process,

and post online, all from the palm

of my hand – that was it for me.

I eventually put down all my

other cameras and have barely

shot with anything else since.’

Although Ingraham owns

over 140 photography apps, he

only uses about half a dozen

of those on a regular basis. His

principal app for black & white

is Hipstamatic and ProCamera

for colour. Snapseed is his

primary app for most of his post-

processing and he often uses

the Image Blender app since it

allows him to combine different

versions of the same shot to

bring out details in one area of an

image while darkening another.

Ingraham has been exhibiting

his work internationally during

the past few years and has

recently enjoyed perfecting

his printing skills. In addition

to teaching workshops, he is

currently working on plans for

his first monograph.

davidingraham.zenfolio.com

‘A purely creative

endeavour and even

a form of escape.’

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