Andy Earl
Andy Earl, born in 1955
starts his CV with: 1972 Mechanic to James Hunt! Since then he seems to have
been consistently in the fast lane! He studied at Trent in the UK and at the
Maryland Institute in the US and has had an enormously successful career in
innovative portrait work producing more than 120 album sleeves, magazine work
for Rolling Stone, Q, Face, Mojo, Sunday times, Guardian, Max, Stern, etc.,
advertising campaigns for Sony, Honda, etc. and film posters including Four
Weddings and a Funeral. He won an award as Director of Photography for the
Rolling Stones Video in 1996 and has directed more than 20 pop videos and a Coca
Cola commercial. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Photographers’
Gallery, London and the National Portrait Gallery, London. His pictures appear
in major book publications such as Exploring Photography, New European
Photography and About 70 Photographs published by the Arts Council of
Great Britain.
You may recall Andy as the presenter of the six
part BBC2 series, 1995, Photo Show, as well as many other TV appearances.
He currently writes a monthly two page column for Practical Photography and
lectures widely. Amongst his hobbies he lists motor racing, motorbikes - and
Gardens!
Workshop History
Environment and style in
contemporary portraiture with one of the top 50
exciting/imaginative/fashion/portrait/ photographers in the world!
This workshop will deal with contemporary
portraiture, making portraits using not just a (handsome / pretty) face, but
thinking through how the setting enhances the subject to create images that deal
with the picture as a whole, the environment and style of the photograph
enhancing the subject. We will lean heavily on Andy’s extensive knowledge of
flash (multiple flash images of Ascot in the early 80’s caused an enormous
stir!) and will use flash outside, using studio ideas in the landscape, to try
to find new ways of freeing up inhibitions.