KIRK ELLINGHAM
Photographer
Kirk Ellingham
Documentary Photographer
Based in the UK and Poland
Artists Statement
Statement
Although this work constitutes just a small part of my ideas and projects, it is nonetheless representative of my on going focus and strategy in dealing with the world and its problems using the photograph as my tool.
From the ‘Portrait to Narrative’ I try to express the places and people I know and meet through my eyes as a personnel witness a participant in life not just an observer.
With my work I am often dealing with the transient and often surreal aspects of the human condition and the concept of the ‘photographic Journey’ be that an emotional or physical one. So as time passes I am continuously trying to fathom the hard facts of life: its loves, despair, anxieties and hopes through these small stories, both intimate and distant, both foreign and here upon my own doorstep.
Education
January 2009 – December 2010 London College of Communication
MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism (Distinction)
September 2003 to June 2006: University of Wales, Newport School of Art and Media.
B/A (Hons) Degree in Documentary Photography
January 2005 to July 2005: FAMU Institute of Arts, Dance and Music, Prague Czech Republic
Exchange Program in Photography, Prague: Mentors ‘Viktor Kolar and Pavel Diaz
September 2000 till 2001: Bedford College of Further Education Department of Art and Design
BTEC National Diploma Foundation Art & Design (Merit)
Accepted on Magnum Workshop 2008 in Oslo, Norway
Exhibitions
September 2012 Kaunas Photo festival, Lithuania | Homelands collective | multimedia projection: postcards from Kalisz pt I / the sacrifice
June 2012 | Tbilisi photo festival Georgia | joint projection Private Photojournalism magazine
April 2012 Postcards from Kalisz, the Print Space, London
2012 Maribor Slovenia potluck festival : finalist multimedia: Four Floors in Bielany
2011 Apulia : story of a migration comeptition: shortlisted Exhibition Royal Horseguards
July 2011 Foto8 Summer show Host Gallery London
May 2011: Hotshoe gallery MA final show, Online Four Floors in Bielany
May 2009: The Death of memory, projection & prints, Queens park Arts centre, Aylesbury
February 2009:Being Human exhibition, Lee Jeans Competition, Rome
January 6-13th 2008 :International Photography Festival, Port Alegre, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil,
November 2008: All about Her Queens Park Arts Centre
July 18th 2008: Blood & Water (other) ITS#WEB Photo Talent Award, Trieste Italy,
November 2007: Blood & Water Da Mostra Caixola-Proecoes Audio-Fotograficas,
Presentation at Cinema Tech, Curitiba, Parana Brazil
November 14th 2007, Gilli Murat Competition, Pristina Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo, August
March 2006 to July 2006:Ghosts & Blackbirds Base Camp Merano 2, Merano, Italy
September: 2006 Pavilion Images Banner display
June to July 2005: 20 Seconds Café Voibechek, Prague, Czech Republic:
Kirk Ellingham
© Photographs and Text 2006