Double Take
Images from the Digital Darkroom
Free exhibition
The Barn Gallery, Oxford
St. John's College, 21 St. Gile's, OX1 3JS
14 — 28 October, 2023
10 AM — 4 PM Monday to Sunday
Photographs
Bharat Patel
Bharat is an Oxford-based photographer working with NGOs and international charities. He has exhibited arresting images of those living and toiling under unimaginable conditions in the global south. In his most recent work he creates a narrative by blending a number of separate images into one. He is also embracing the world of AI, creating images in response to text prompts, an approach to image creation that has by some been called Promptography. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to try their own hand at AI image creation.
http://www.bharatpatelphotography.co.uk
Uwe Ackermann
Uwe is a retired physiologist, living in Oxford. He has previously exhibited at the Barn Gallery, Link Gallery (Oxford), King’s College Art Centre (Cambridge) and elsewhere. His work has ranged from observational shots of life and its actors to a two-year social document of an Oxford community resisting the greed of developers. In this exhibition he explores the interface between descriptive photography and the visual possibilities that are offered in the digital sphere.
http://uwe-ackermann.crevado.com
Video Art
Terry Flaxton
Terry has worked with sound composition, photography & film, developing a particular interest in analogue video during the 1970's and has subsequently exhibited internationally, locations including Tokyo, Moscow, Bonn, Xi’an, Milan, Algiers, Strasbourg & recently Florence, Dublin and New York (exhibitions at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in NY were visited by over 1.2 million visitors). His work has won various awards including both the Montbeliard and Locarno Prix Graphs and Prix Nike Amsterdam. He is a lifetime Academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art; was until recently Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Arts at University of the West of England; is a Royal West of England Academician and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
https://www.seditionart.com/terry-flaxton