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The artist,
Image by Andrea Resch
Born in Ireland in 1972 Dublin, Gavin is award-winning landscape & nature photographer who is self thought.
The first experience with photography was a group school outing organised by a secondary maths teacher, taking along his father's film camera.
Many years later when living in Montpelier, he used one of the first digital cameras for documenting his travels. It wasn't until settling with his family in Austria after living in Italy and France for a few years previousily, at this point later he came more serious about using the camera. Living in the Alps with a passion for hiking and mountain biking, photography became a natural extension for seeing nature in more detail.
He enjoys the works of Wynn Bullock, Sebastião Salgado and many others.
The camera,
It is the visual voice of the scenes found around us. The expression can be complete and simple, the statement is often, “here it is” and “here is what it says and what it could say”. Should it be more complicated, it can be, but it’s interpretation is left laid out in view for discovery and grasp. The framed glimpses presented, should give notice to what is all around us.
The artwork,
There is no mass production, the reason to do, is simply out of desire to. Most if not all of the photographs are made when time was dedicated to a place, to listen, to seek, to seek out its vision. When the vision manifests, the best composure is called to set the scene in it’s full permanence. The mono medium, black & white has always answered strongest to this vision as an artist.
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Awards
- International Photography Award: Honorable Mention for Austrian Gorge in Fine Art Landscape
- Prix de la Photographie, Paris 2010: 2nd place for Nature Landscape in
PUBLICATIONS
Download
Austrian Gorge Artist Statement
Austrian Gorge als PDF (Deutsch)
Available for Exhibition
Each of these bodies of work are available for exhibition. Please do contact me, if you are interested in displaying any these works. Many of the images are already framed and matted.
Post Process, Black & White Conversion
Post processing is what happens after the image is taken. Not being a fan of Photoshop per se, my preference is a camera raw editor called Aperture to manage my images and to make small adjustments to Brightness, Contract and Saturation. I'm a firm believer of getting the composition / crop correct on location rather than later back at the computer. I do use a professional black & white converter plugin for the raw editor called 'Silver Efex Pro'. This provides the same possiblities as a traditional darkroom except digitally.
Equipment
Ansel Adams was once asked a question about his camera, he answered "the biggest camera I can carry", well his mules carried most of his gear up and down the ridges of Yosemite but that's another story. These days digital has become so popular, like Ansel in a way I prefer a large sensor camera, in my case a full frame camera.
- Canon 5D MkII
- Canon 30D converted to infrared with a deep IR filter by Lifepixel
- Leica M8
- Zeiss ZM 35mm f/2
- Canon 17-40mm L, 24-105mm L Lens
- Canon EF 50 mm f/1.4
- Canon 135L f/2
- Canon 70-200 f/4
- Canon 85L
- Canon 35-350 L
- Olympus OM 2N
- Olympus 21mm f/3.5
- Kiev 4A Rangefinder
Absolutely essential is a sturdy, solid tripod.
- Manfrotto 055B and head, this is my favourite, its super solid and goes high too.
- Manfroto 190 Carbon Fiber, this is light and stable for hiking.
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