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19 Aug 2024

COMMISSION NOT QUITE LIGHT

Not Quite Light is available for commissions, workshops and photowalks… The Not Quite Light project, exploring the world in the half-light of dawn and dusk, brings a fresh way to explore the world around us. And you can be part of this work through collabortaing on commissions, or hiring me for workshops, talks and twilight photowalks. COMMISSIONS The Not Quite Light project has been commissioned for a wide variety of projects and collaborations. This https://buttress.net/journal/2024/03/25/project-voices-rob-burgess-brunswick-villagehas seen work made across several […]

04 Dec 2023
An image of the Ashton Canal in Manchester at dusk. There is an old bridge, and from under it a cyclist has emerged, leaving a trail of white light.

NEW WORK AT SAUL HAY GALLERY IN CASTLEFIELD

I recently took photographs which have slightly evolved Not Quite Light in the city. I’ve begun to seek out spaces which are ostensibly public, and which yet are unsettling in the twilight. Often they are areas used for leisure, or green spaces, but that were once industrial areas, now reclaimed for other uses. The initial three photographs from this collection are now exclusively available as limited edition prints via the Saul Hay Gallery in Castlefield. They can be bought in […]

04 Dec 2023
A photograph of the remains of the Ancoats Roundhouse, taken at night. A circle of bricks surrounds a small copse of beech trees. The trees are softly lit with artifical light.

ANCOATS ROUNDHOUSE 9.49PM

THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION PRINT, AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY VIA SAUL HAY GALLERY Fear comes with me when I work in the twilight. As I stand by my tripod, waiting for minutes to pass as I take my photographs, I’m as much engaged with risk, as I am with the scene before me, constantly casting around for signs of danger, animalistic instincts awoken by my isolation in darkened surroundings. In the stillness of half-light, everything is exaggerated. Sound, […]

04 Dec 2023
A picture of Whitworth Park in Manchester, taken at dusk on Bonfire Night. The trees, still surprisingly green in the late Auturmn, are illukminated by floodlights coming from a nearby football pitch.

WHITWORTH PARK, WHEN IS DUSK?

THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION PRINT, EXCLUSIVELY VIA SAUL HAY GALLERY… When is dusk? For me it’s a period of time that can last for over an hour. If you’re staring at a darkening sky, searching for the last of the light, it’s a state of mind as much as anything else. There was a sign on the railings that quite clearly stated that the park would be locked up at dusk. The winter sky was awash […]

04 Dec 2023
An image of the Ashton Canal in Manchester at dusk. There is an old bridge, and from under it a cyclist has emerged, leaving a trail of white light.

ASHTON CANAL, FRIDAY TEATIME

THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION PRINT EXCLUSIVELY VIA SAUL HAY GALLERY It’s not the clock that sets our feelings towards any particular space, it’s light, or its absence, setting that particular agenda. And now that it’s winter time, when dusk falls across the end of the working day, our familiar paths home become shrouded in darkness, altering our perceptions of known places. And so we tend to gather around around light. On a recent Friday tea-time, I’m […]

21 Jul 2022

TIME WILL TELL

I’ve made a short film / slideshow featuring the photographs from the exhibition ‘Time Will Tell’, shown in March and April 2022 at The Modernist Society in Manchester. The pictures are set to audio recorded whilst out at dawn.

04 Oct 2021

THE IRK VALLEY, MANCHESTER

SHOCK CITY A feature written for the second edition of Shock City, whilst working on my project, “Dark Days, Luminous Nights” for the Manchester Collective. I was originally going to write about one of the many walks I’d taken during the first lockdown, journeys often over10 miles that either led me into unexpected spaces, or that reconnected me with old ways not taken for far too long. I was going to talk of encountering the disused Mather and Platt foundry […]

17 Sep 2021

PHOTOGRAPHY DAILY PODCAST

I’ve been interviewed for the Photography Daily podcast, in which I talk about the origins of NQL, and the various things that inspire my ways of working. I like doing interviews, as it’s like a form of therapy, and you can empty your head of all the elements clouding your mind. LISTEN HERE

14 May 2021

DARK DAYS, LUMINOUS NIGHTS – NEW DATES

  3RD-10TH JUNE, THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD New dates have been released for ‘Dark Days, Luminous Nights’, my project in collaboration with Manchester Collective and the movement artist Blackhaine. The postponed event in January quickly sold out, extra time slots have been added. The immersive event at The White Hotel, Salford, will consist of photographs aswell as a film I wrote and directed, to illustrate the music recorded by Manchester Collective, featuring work by Bartok, Kilar and Edmund Finnis. For […]

09 Dec 2020

DARK DAYS, LUMINOUS NIGHTS

DARK DAYS, LUMINOUS NIGHTS   In 2019 I was commissioned by Manchester Collective to produce a collection of stills and a film, exploring the ancient and haunting Irk Valley in Manchester. The project was exhibited at Salford’s The White Hotel in June 2021. This was the Manchester Collective’s summing up of the project. “It’s 2021. Manchester. Gleaming apartments rise up over the ancient river Irk, and under the prime real estate of Angel Meadow, 40,000 bodies are buried. Cities change. […]

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