Chris Friel (born 1959) is a British photographer noted for his abstract landscape images.
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- 1 Photography
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Photography
Friel was a painter for many years back turning to photography in 2006, since when he has not painted. This amend in medium coincided in the flavor of his neglect London to live on a seashore in Whitstable, Kent. He has talked just about the importance of the Kent countryside and coast to his work.
His in advance photographic doing was shot in black and white. The explanation he has unadulterated for this is that he is partially colour blind and “did not vibes confident tolerable to shoot landscapes next the true colour balance”. However, since 2009 most of his prolific output has been in colour. He is quoted as motto that he usually shoots 1000 images a day. He has cited his ahead of time influences as the Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko, the Canadian impressionist landscape photographer Frank Grisdale and the British painter Kurt Jackson; and further influences as James Wainwright, Peter Scammell, Toshihiro Oshima, and Luis Montemeyer; while Tim Parkin has noted the have an effect on of Fay Godwin, Bill Brandt and Harry Callahan.
All of his photographs are produced using digital cameras and a immersion of tilt-shift lenses, long discussion photography and intentional camera movement – the pursuit of the camera higher than the course of the exposure. He has said “My sensitivity to sitting in stomach of computers means that I get minimal post production on images”.
His photographs have been exhibited widely including at the South Bank Centre London, on the Santiago subway in Chile, and projected at the back the London Sinfonietta in the Royal Festival Hall, and Mikhail Palinchak has described him as “one of the finest contemporary landscape photographers in the uk today”.
He was shortlisted for The Sunday Times’ Landscape Photographer of the Year for the last four years, and won a judge’s choice great compliment in 2011.
In 2011 Friel published Moving Pictures, a increase of 80 of his abstract colour landscape photos next an essay by the Canadian art critic Ann Marie Simard.
2011 also saying Friel collaborating as soon as Matthew Herbert on the artwork for his album one pig.
In 2015 published a amassing of his images in a autograph album entitled ‘Framed’ published by Kozu Books in imitation of a foreword by Doug Chinnery
Last update 2021-08-06