Gary John Norman's Page
Profile Information
- Website
- http://garyjohnnorman.com
- Relationship status
- in a relationship
- College / University
- Bournemouth
- Program
- Post Graduate
- Graduation
- 1 June 1997
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Photography
- I am...
- My family were all involved in fishing off the Suffolk coast in England. So my fascination with the elements started early on. Often exposed physically to Mother Nature, we were also financially reliant on her whims. She never fails to motivate me and my work always seems to refer back to my experiences on the ocean as much as dry land.
In much of my work I search for a balance between or, if possible, a meeting point for humanity and nature. I look to capture a human moment where it seems nature’s forces have united to create that split second in time.
Graduating in 1987 with a Bachelors and a Masters degree from Bournemouth School of Art and Design, I went on to apprentice with advertising photographers. They taught me the skills of studio lighting and an uncompromising attention to detail.
Nowadays I enjoy working with a collaborative and creative team. They are poised to play their parts with such precision that it allows me to be flexible and spontaneous; to focus on the subtle human elements that make all the difference.
Travelling is a large part of my work. New landscapes, people and even cuisines are always wetting my appetite for fresh philosophies and photographic ideas. I have kept returning to various parts of the Balkans in the last few years for just these reasons.
Recent advertising commissions in the U.S.A and Europe for the apparel, marine and tourism markets, have given me increasingly more opportunities to create inspirational images that share the same feeling as my personal work.
For a decade life and work were based in the U.S.A. But this summer I returned to the tea, red busses and clouds of Britain I missed for so long. I now work from my office and studio by the boatyard on Eel Pie Island in the middle of the Thames in London.
- The centre of the artworld is
- London, my studio
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In much of my work I search for a balance between or, if possible, a meeting point for humanity and nature. I look to capture a human moment where it seems nature’s forces have united to create that split second in time.
Graduating in 1987 with a Bachelors and a Masters degree from Bournemouth School of Art and Design, I went on to apprentice with advertising photographers. They taught me the skills of studio lighting and an uncompromising attention to detail.
Nowadays I enjoy working with a collaborative and creative team. They are poised to play their parts with such precision that it allows me to be flexible and spontaneous; to focus on the subtle human elements that make all the difference.
Travelling is a large part of my work. New landscapes, people and even cuisines are always wetting my appetite for fresh philosophies and photographic ideas. I have kept returning to various parts of the Balkans in the last few years for just these reasons.
Recent advertising commissions in the U.S.A and Europe for the apparel, marine and tourism markets, have given me increasingly more opportunities to create inspirational images that share the same feeling as my personal work.
For a decade life and work were based in the U.S.A. But this summer I returned to the tea, red buses and clouds of Britain I missed for so long. I now work from my office and studio by the boatyard on Eel Pie Island in the middle of the Thames in London.
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