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Silence and stillness on a Winter Road rewards Canadian photographer Graham Davies in ILFORD PHOTO competition

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

winter-road-graham-davies-600dpi-for-blog1HARMAN technology Limited is pleased to announce the winners of the ILFORD PHOTO DELTA 400 Image on a Box Competition

 

First prize of 1000 USD worth of ILFORD black and white photographic products goes to Welsh born Canadian photographer Graham Davies.

 

The competition was open to all residents of Canada and USA with entries shot on ILFORD DELTA 400 film and printed on ILFORD black and white paper. Judge Dennis Keeley from the Art Center College of Design in California selected the entry titled “Winter Road” as the overall winner. The winning image will also feature on one of the iconic ILFORD PHOTO black and white paper boxes.

 

July 2011 marks 50 years in professional photography for Graham Davies, starting as a photographer’s apprentice at age 15 in his native Wales. His career has encompassed industrial and theatrical photography and photojournalism from local newspapers to the national UK press, most recently freelance for The Daily Express in London. He emigrated to Canada in 1993 and now focuses on fine art film-based, hand-printed photography. He lives in Cherry Valley in the island community of Prince Edward County, Ontario where he has a gallery and studio. Graham has always used Ilford film, paper and chemicals exclusively for his personal and fine art work, and says he shoots digital “only when I have to.”

 

About the Image – Winter Road

Graham took this picture close to home, in typical Eastern Ontario winter conditions. “Driving home from town, I stopped the car and got out to feel the silence and the stillness. It was a good five minutes before another car went by. As a black and white photographer I loved winter in the countryside when I first arrived in Canada. I still do.”

 

For more details about Graham Davies – www.baldphotographer.com

  

HARMAN technology Limited is a pioneering imaging specialist based in Mobberley, Cheshire. The company – which was born of the ILFORD formed by Alfred Harman in 1879 – now includes three, separate and well known brands: ILFORD PHOTO which offers traditional monochrome photographic products; HARMAN PHOTO which provides high-end inkjet media for both colour and monochrome prints as well as display media E: news@harmantechnology.com

Arts Trail Turns One

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

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June 2009 month marks the one year anniversary of the launch of Prince Edward County, Ontario’s Arts Trail (www.artstrail.ca), a tour route that winds over 200 kilometres to link together the galleries and studios of local artists.

Like the Taste Trail (www.tastetrail.ca), the region’s epicurean trail, the Arts Trail comprises a bilingual print brochure/map, a website and road signs that help guide the way. More than an opportunity to admire and snap up original artworks, it offers the public the ability to meet artists, to tour their studios and to enjoy special insight into understanding their work. It was developed to shine a spotlight on Prince Edward County’s vibrant creative community and so far it is working.

Despite the economic downtown, the trail enjoyed a successful first year with many participants reporting an increase in both traffic and sales. David Drown of Wellington Pottery says 2008 was his “best season ever” and photographer Graham Davies admits that despite initial reservations about the project’s potential to bring consumers to his door that it worked, “I saw a lot of customers with the Arts Trail in hand.”

This year’s edition includes 21 participating locations. They are: Windswept Studio; Wellington Pottery; Bloomin’ Barn Studio; Armstrong Glassworks; SideStreet Gallery; Suites-on-the-Lake Studio; Beach Street Studio; Shattered Gallery/Studio; Oeno Gallery; Angeline’s Restaurant, Inn & Spa; Covent Garden Contemporary Fine Art & Funktional Art & Design; Bloomfield Studios, Peta Hall Gallery; Mad Dog Gallery; Bald Photographer Gallery; La De Dah Sculpture Studio; Red Roof Gallery; Riccaro Jewellery Studio & Gallery; The Red Barns (an artisan’s playground); and two newcomers: Moontide Studio Gallery and Round the Bend Gallery.

Visit www.artstrail.ca or, better yet, travel the trail, to learn more.

Photo credit: Graham Davies.