Bill Leigh
The 2009 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition - Collective Exhibition
August 14 - September 2, 2009
Reception:
Thursday August 20, 2009 6-8 PM
Press Release
Bill Leigh’s striking photographs owe their beautiful quality of tone and patina to his approach, which is grounded in the technical mechanics of photographic processes. He uses a pinhole camera, allowing him an infinite depth of field and giving the images a soft focus – this, combined with the use of black and white film or printing on silver gelatin endows Leigh’s work with a sense of antiquarianism.
Each finely composed shot becomes archival, the slow pace of the old technology allowing him to process them as individual instances and works of art.
Artist Statement
For me, photography is magic. I take photographs because I enjoy the process of capturing scenes that I find interesting or beautiful with a fairly simple device and then printing them using non-digital techniques. My goal is to produce images that will convey the beauty or uniqueness of the scene that I saw at the time. With today's mass-produced images and the instant gratification of digital photography, I find that the slower paced, older, hand crafted processes both force me and allow me to think more about what I am photographing and what I want to achieve and say with my photographs. In doing so, I feel that I am carrying on my father's and grandfather's love for what is truly artistic in photography.
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