Preview: Friday 23rd May 6pm
Dates: Throughout
Times: 12 - 6pm daily
Location: Shires Yard (no. 5 on map)
Artists: Geraint James, David Pothecary, Geoff Wood
Curator: Carolyn Arnold
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Links: www.flickr.com/photos/51791386@N00 - www.geraintjames.co.uk

An exhibition of 3 photographers who take startlingly different approaches to their medium. Geraint James shows alluring imagery of modern urban landscape with ideas around façade and displacement, while David Pothecary has produced grainy, atmospheric, docu-style images with emphasis on immediacy. Geoff Wood is interested in the differences between the mechanics of eye and camera. These 3 series are brought together under the title VOID yielding multiple interpretations: outside/inside, inaccuracy, the space between subject and photographer.

DAVID POTHECARY
Without immediacy, photography is nothing. Composition, exposure, focus - all must be secondary to it. Having everyone stand still and say "cheese" only preserves a moment of everyone standing still and saying "cheese". The pictures you see here are not technically great. But I believe that they capture some of the atmosphere of the moment in which they were taken. And that to me is the essence of photography.

GERAINT JAMES
'Auto Illumination' explores the space of the car showroom, particularly the role that brand played in their construction, and the way that these highly visual spaces seem to be separated from the lifestyle they allude to sell. Set amongst semi-industrial areas, these places appear out of place, existing seemingly independently from their surroundings, their heightened aesthetics only appearing to accentuate the feeling of dislocation.

GEOFF WODD
Saccades are the very rapid, simultaneous movements of both our eyes in the same direction as they switch from one fixation point another, e.g in reading... Not only do we automatically use saccades, but we also actively choose what to focus on, what to ignore and where to move to for a better view. Once we are sensitised to how we operate second by second, a whole new world appears that we normally ignore. This new awareness provides exciting possibilities for the photographer and how the camera can be used to record scenes in different ways to our eyes and brains.