David Winston
Renowned for his atmospheric and painterly style, David Winston employs alternative photographic processes to transcend the limits of conventional digital imagery. His work offers a contemplative lens through which viewers engage with emotion, memory, and the quiet beauty of transient moments.
‘‘Photography is generally a single moment—a split second frozen in time, but there is a different impression when consecutive moments are combined, a myriad of movements and expressions that tell us more of the story: different emotions, different movement, or the combined shapes as our paths may intersect those of others who have just previously occupied the same space. These images are made in camera and I have no control over the paths that people may take. The chance meetings and intersection of strangers join to make an image unseen by those who have created it.’’
This technique does not use a special development process but does use an unconventional photographic technique, where multiple rapid images are taken of a moving object and combined in one image, leaving trails of the moving object as it passes through the framed area. Especially in images with people, what the viewer sees is the path taken as they make their way through a space, leaving behind a ghostly tracery. These different processes allow Winston to work with the more artistic elements of photography. Winston aims to capture the essence of an image, rather than a frozen moment. Most of his work is done in camera, without later digital manipulation.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Roys Art Fair, London, 2021. Affordable Art Fair, London, 2021. Crossing the Liminal, London, 2021. Campari Art Without Walls, London, 2021
AWARDS:
Thames Lens Photography Competition. Illuminated River Category, Shortlisted, 2022.
David Winston lives and works between Venice and the UK.
“Photography is generally a single moment—a split second frozen in time, but there is a different impression when consecutive moments are combined, a myriad of movements and expressions that tell us more of the story: different emotions, different movement, or the combined shapes as our paths may intersect those of others who have just previously occupied the same space. These images are made in camera and I have no control over the paths that people may take. The chance meetings and intersection of strangers join to make an image unseen by those who have created it.”
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