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Ian Atkinson Photographer

Northumbrian born photographer Ian Atkinson has photographed extensively all over the world primarily within the advertising market.  His personal work is constantly analysing the portrait, our relationship to the family and our continuing fascination with the photographic image.

"Whenever we look at a photographic image, as well as being confronted with the artist’s ideas and perceptions we also begin to read the work in a similar way we would a text.   We analyse the photo, as only we can from the perspective of the spectator, laying upon the image our own social and political ideals as well as our memories and sensibilities.  These are some of the ideas that I have attempted to convey and develop within my current work.  The series of images which have been exhibited in the last year ask questions of the viewer and question our ability to look at an image beyond its capacity for simple mimesis.  The work asks to be interpreted; what are the moments that precede it and what are those yet to come, for these are the moments that capture our attention". Ian Atkinson 2010

Exhibitions & Awards

2012 Camarades de Velo, Look Mum no hands, London

2011 Family, Ground Floor Left Gallery, London.

2011 3rd Ward Open Call Art Prize, Brooklyn, New York

2011 Gallery Huit Open Salon Prize, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France

2010 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010, National Portrait Gallery, London

2010 Uncertain States - A Year On, East Gallery London

2010 The Fine Line between Heaven and Here, East Gallery London

2010 Pioneers, Sir John Cass School of Art and Design, London

2010 MA Interim Show … Unit 2 Gallery  Whitechapel. London

2009 Interactions, Jane Smith Studio, Leigh on Sea

2001 Association of Photographers Assistant Awards, AOP Gallery, London

2000 PIEA PMA International Student Awards, Las Vegas

Education

2009-2010          London Metropolitan University

                            MA (Distinction) Photography

1999-2000          Salisbury College of Art & Design

                            BA (Hons) Photography: Upper Second

                            PQE: Distinction

1998-1999          Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

                           BA Photography

1997-1999          Salisbury College of Art and Design

                           HND, Photo media: Distinction

1996-1997          Bournemouth Institute

   National Diploma, Photography: Distinction

   Diploma, Advanced large format photography, Sinar Switzerland.

Associations

Association of Photographers

Associate of the British Institute of Professional Photographers

Associate of the Royal Photographic Society