Shot Up North Ed Horwich

In this episode I talk to Brian Griffin about his book Himmelstrasse.

I first met Brian when we were both guest panellists at Format Festival.

A while later we had the pleasure of having Brian as our Curating Judge for Shotupnorth’s SUN Awards 27.

Of course, Brian Griffin is one of Britain’s most influential portrait photographers… his style of transforming workplaces into stages and his subjects into actors, is one which acquired the name “Capitalist Realism”.

That style propelled him into the music world too, where he photograph bands like The Jam, and Elvis Costello and others, who also chose to dress in suits and ties.

His work has become iconic, and is held in prestigious collections like the National Portrait Gallery.

So for the viewer, Himmelstrasse comes as a shocking departure.

Himmelstrasse, Heaven Street, is the cynical name the Nazis gave to the railways that transported millions of Jews and others to the extermination camps.

As we sat in his Rotherhithe home, with a pot of green tea, looking over the Thames, on a February afternoon…

…I asked what had drawn him to the bleak forests of Poland, haunted by the traumas of the Holocaust?

Brian also addressed an online audience for 'Shotupnorth @home' talking about Himmelstrasse
https://youtu.be/U43cQLomloY

Himmelstrasse is available from brownseditions.com

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Dan Prince has been one of Shot Up North’s consistently successful photographers in recent years. Ed Horwich met him to chat about his work, his work ethic and his passion for photography.

So grab your favourite beverage and join us as we talk about risking all to get a career of the ground; how putting your head in a fridge can turn into a winning image; and how to deal with LA production values whilst being parachuted into the back lot of Back to the Future film .

But our chat begins by deliberating if its even possible to do justice to photography in an audio Podcast...

To see the images that we were talking about just go to shotupnorth.co.uk, where you can rifle through the archive of the Shot Up North’s SUN Awards all the way back to 2000, and see not just Dan Prince but the work of many many top professional photographers from across the UK

And of course you can see Dan’s work on his own website danprince.co.uk

Shut up north is a not-for-profit project run by photographers for photographers and everybody who works with and uses photography in the creative industries and business.

The SUN Awards book and exhibition take place annually, discovering, showcasing and rewarding the best professional photographers in the UK regions.

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Kerry Harrison was awarded 1st and 3rd places for his video entries in Shot Up North's 23rd SUN AWARDS. Ed Horwich talks to him about his beginnings as a stills photographer and what its like to add making movies to the portfolio of work that a stills photographer can offer.

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Ed Horwich talks with award winning Leeds based photographer Richard Moran about his early life, what caused him to pursue a photographic career, how he has developed his client base, and other influences on his own photographic style.

http://www.moranphoto.co.uk

Shot Up North's SUN AWARDS celebrate and reward the best commercial photography in the UK regions, working in the disciplines of Advertising, Design, Fashion or Editorial.

And Shot Up North's SUNRISE showcase features the best work from emerging professional photographers who are taking their first steps in a photographic career.

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Ed Horwich is a photographer. He also speaks, writes and produces podcasts and video about photography, in the social media.

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Ed Horwich talks to photographic partnership Steve McCoy and Stephanie Wynne, about their recent exhibition Quiescence and how they manage to merge personal projects with their full time commercial work.

www.mccoywynne.co.uk

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The SUN Awards recognises and rewards the best commercial photography in the UK regions, working in the disciplines of Advertising, Design, Fashion or Editorial

A commercial and advertising photographer, Paul embarked on a 2 year MA degree at Nottingham Trent University as a way of examining and pushing his photography a step further.

His resulting final year exhibition has projected him into an almost completely different way of earning a living as a commercial photographer, as well has profoundly changing the type of work he now produces.

So what was that process like and can others follow a similar model?

The SUN Awards recognises and rewards the best commercial photography in the UK regions, working in the disciplines of Advertising, Design, Fashion or Editorial