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Jeremy Webb

Norwich
Photographer, light artist, light painter, published author, occasional journalist & blogger, tutor & workshop leader, creative mentor, coach & collaborator, life/portrait/character model
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I’ve explored Photography as freelance practitioner, tutor and writer, in all its various forms for over 35 years. The medium is far too versatile, offers far too much scope and potential to just stick with it in one place, wear one hat, as if to say “this is all I do, this is my patch” and then spend a professional lifetime sat in that zone.

You won’t find any unique or recognisable Jeremy Webb “house style” here, but you’ll find a wide range of different subjects, themes and approaches. I’ve always believed in exploring every area, every genre, every style of photography because this is simply authentic to my enquiring and curious nature and as natural to me as a musician might explore many different forms of music. So I give myself the permission to shift between Documentary, Surrealism, Pictorialism, Modernism, Expressionist Abstract, Conceptual, Minimalism or Complexity, according to project/subject.

I’ve spent the bulk of this time exploring, enquiring, playing, focussed on being independent and uncompromised, immersed in the medium and forgetting about selling or marketing my work simply because I’ve been having too much fun making it. I reach a point now, as a mid-career photographic artist, where I can enjoy the creative freedom that comes from being beyond the grip or thrall of gallery-led contemporary photography, or the sales-driven imperative of commercial work. I’ve had plenty of paid work along the way, but I’ve learnt and developed the most from simply immersing myself in the medium, teaching, collaborating, writing, exhibiting, running workshops, mentoring, and public art projects as satellite interests around my core practice.

I’m happy working with black and white darkroom processes, slide sandwiches, photograms, pinhole, and as much risk and imprecision as possible. But I’m also comfortable with the pixels and forensic clarity of digital, and a lot of my work overlaps photography with digital art and figurative work. Recent commissions have led me to produce a series of imagined landscapes of Doggerland, as it might have existed some 8500 years BC. I’ve recently producing large-scale prints raising awareness for Charles Bonnet Syndrome; a debilitating hallucinatory experience affecting some blind and poorly-sighted people and also returned to shooting live theatre. The Cut (Halesworth) showed a retrospective of my work from over 3 decades work, and 2021 saw the 2nd edition of my 2nd book Design Principles, published by Bloomsbury.

I'm currently exploring light painting figurative and portrait photography, with 3D LIDAR scanning and iPhone capability while continuing to run workshop programmes for outreach education and coaching or mentoring other visual artists in the Norfolk/Suffolk region.

This rich variety and creative freedom is what drives my work. In exploring my various themes and subjects, I'm driven by a desire to impart simple ideas and perspectives with clarity, directness, and economy.

 

 

Andy Nation

Two women sitting on pavement during heatwave

Eucalyptus

Decalcomania photogram

Beth

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