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Stephen Gill (born in Bristol, 1971) is a British experimental, conceptual and documentary photographer, and artist. He is known for his photographs of East London; his publication of his own books; and his attention to detail of his books as art objects in themselves. He works where he lives and includes this place in his books in novel ways other than just the photographic depiction. His 2005 book ''Hackney Wick'' received acclaim. ==Life and work== Gill's father, a keen photographer, taught him to develop and print his own pictures in the darkroom in their attic. In 1985, while still at school, he went to work for a local, Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs and helping to take family portraits. In 1992 he enrolled in the photography foundation course at Filton College in Bristol. Two years later, he began working full-time in a one-hour photography lab. He then went to work at the Magnum Photos agency in London, first as an intern and then full-time. In 1997 he left Magnum to become a freelance photographer, working on commissions to shoot portraits for newspaper supplements,〔"(Stephen Gill )", Brighton Photo Biennial.〕 and editorial, whilst continuing to make a variety of personal photographic series. He lived and worked in Hackney, East London, until 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 10 June 2014 )〕 In January 2003 Gill bought a basic 1960s box camera made by Coronet for 50 pence at Hackney Wick market, near where he lived. The camera had a plastic lens, and it lacked focus or exposure controls. The market was a large ad-hoc car boot sale on the site of the old Hackney Wick Stadium, a decommissioned dog racing track near Hackney Marshes. He used the camera to photograph people and the environment at the market over the next two years. As well as what, and how, Gill photographed, the pictures are also distinguished by the unpredictable and poorly rendered images from the camera. "In the late ’90s and early 2000s the idea of quality and technique became so important… and conversations around photography were often very much about dpi and megapixels. Part of me was letting go and rebelling against this stage that photography had reached" he has said. These photographs provided the material for his book ''Hackney Wick''. The area was redeveloped for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics.〔 Most of Gill's books until 2014 were shot and created in Hackney. His earliest work was in a straight documentary style. He has gone on to create documentary style photographs in which he alters the image in a variety of ways. ''Coming Up for Air'', ''Coexistence'' and ''Best Before End'' share a theme of immersion in liquid.〔 ''Outside In'' and ''Talking to Ants'' use what he terms "in-camera photograms", his attempts to "evoke the spirit of a place";〔 items from the environment in which he is photographing are inserted into the camera itself and included in images in unpredictable ways. Books are central to Gill's practice with all of his projects conceived of as books.〔 He founded his own publishing imprint, Nobody Books, in 2005, "to exercise maximum control over the publication process of his books" and "to make the book the finished expression of the photographs, rather than just a shell to house them in". He experiments with materials, and has a hands-on, tactile approach to maquette making. This tactile approach includes materials and techniques such as lino cut printing, letter press printing, mono prints, spray paint, and rubber stamps; and on occasion entire books are manufactured and assembled in his studio.〔"(Portfolio )", Stephen Gill.〕 by himself and his assistant Richard, who also distribute the books.〔 All the books are designed by Melanie Mues, and are often clothbound hardbacks with bold, graphic covers.〔 Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in ''The Guardian'' in 2010, said "In Britain, Stephen Gill is perhaps the best-known contemporary self-published photographer". His portrait, editorial and self originated projects have appeared in ''The Guardian Weekend, Le Monde 2, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Tank, The Telegraph Magazine, I-D magazine, The Observer, Blind Spot'' and ''Colors''.〔(The Photographers' Gallery )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Gill (photographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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