New exhibition at Sugahill cafe until 4th December

[BruceHarrison]

There’s a new exhibition to enjoy with your coffee, or over lunch at Sugahill Cafe until 4th December.

Ky Lewis is a fine art photographer and Lomographer, living in London for over 25 years. Having worked in design and illustration she now concentrates on making images via photographic methods. Her images continue to use analogue processes, the images you see are what was on the negative, created in camera using either the most basic pinholes or plastic “Toy” cameras or even camera-less by contact methods.

“Creating pinhole images and images without lenses using the sun has become a passion. The pinhole cameras are often made out of simple waste items such as old tins, film pots, boxes and the like, from such disposable items come dreamy images, resonant of past memories.”

She also teaches art, printmaking and shares her knowledge of these processes with children on long term projects based around Solargraphy, Lumen printing and other alternative photographic processes.

Previous projects have centred around the transience of the figure in the landscape and especially beside water. Her book “Pinhole and Plastic” contains many images from this series. A collection of images taken with a variety of plastic cameras has also been published, called “Wide Open” it explores the false panoramas that can be created using these “toys”. The images come from both the U.K. and Europe. A new notebook designed and containing photographs of allotments and garden related matters is called "Growing Notes".

All Ky’s publications are available on-line at http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=ky+lewis

Working with others internationally she has also collaborated on a number of projects resulting in exhibitions in venues in India, America, Canada, Austria, Russia and London.

Ky’s work is held in a number of private and international collections and featured in books and magazines. The most recent include: Goa-Cap, The Hole New World; Toycam lo-fi Photography; The Pinhole Camera by Brian Krummel; Light leaks Magazine; Vignettes Diana World Tour; The LCA by Lomography; The Lomogrpahy London Notebook; Articles and Lomographs can also be found in a forthcoming publication for a London City Guide.

Links:
http://www.kylewis.co.uk

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kycamlewis

http://www.cameradaze.blogspot.com

http://www.lomography.com/homes/kylewis