There will be a second chance to see ‘24-1 / All [My] Photography is a Lie / Contact, Contract, Control’ by Nicholas Blake after its successful exhibition in 2009. The exhibition will be online from 9am Friday 20th August 2010.

Preview below:

24-1 / All [My] Photography Is A Lie / Contact, Contract, Control is an exploration of the selective processes of a photographer. The purpose of this exhibition is to exhibit 24 photographs from a single roll of film. All were taken roughly over a week on the same 35mm camera and lens. ‘24-1’ is my attempt at exploring and challenging my own and others’ processes of selection.

I’m fascinated with control. The way a photographer chooses, shapes, frames, selects, culls, edits and then displays a particular image - it’s all important, and to me, compellingly interesting. There are a million things which can affect how a viewer sees the end result, and it’s all mostly dependent on what the photographer chooses. 

24-1 / All [My] Photography Is A Lie / Contact, Contract, Control began as my own personal project to explore the relationship between a photographer and a photograph; in my mind, I was so successful that I wanted to display the result. There’s more going on than I can possibly explain; more than I want to explain. You’ll come to your own conclusions – I want you to come to your own conclusions – although you’ll have to think and work hard. I have nothing to prove. To judge this exhibition by the aesthetic or technical merits of the photography is, in my mind, missing the point - the photographs could be of anything. 24-1 / All [My] Photography Is A Lie / Contact, Contract, Control just happens to be my holiday photographs from the summer. 

August-November 2009. Re-used August-September 2010.