http://www.openforbusiness.uk.com
Last week I managed to attend the private view of the 'Open for Business' photography exhibition in the Bradford National Media Museum.
I arrived somewhat early, at which point the privately booked band were playing to a non-existant audience and the coat rack was looking fairly vacant.
Within 20 minutes the rooms was full of dignitaries and suspicious looking suits. Oddly, I felt that many treated the exhibition as a social imperative, and were only somewhat aware that the walls had pictures on them.
The pictures themselves were taken by nine photographers, all with the same brief centred on British industry. The approaches were highly varied, the most sucessful in my opinion being by Jonas Bendiksen, who's exhibition space was filled with chaotically arranged screens showing excellently shot moving image of machinery and process, along side equally well framed photographs.
I think the methodology of photography is equally applicable to illustration, as we must also concern ourselves with composition and space.
Here is a video interview with the photographer (it cannot be embedded due to admin settings):
http://vimeo.com/84969833
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