ANDREW MCGIBBON
one small seed network | selected member # 002
ANDREW MCGIBBON photographer durban, south africa www.onesmallseed.net/profile/andrewmcgibbon
Andrew Mc Gibbon, age 28, has been making images for a living for six years and plans on doing so for many more. “I feel totally alive when on a shoot, whether on location shooting a big production, hanging out in studio shooting a spread for a magazine or on assignment covering something special. I feel a deep connection to my subjects and believe in my work. I feel it speaks louder than my words ever can,” he explains. He leads when he’s behind the camera and it feels only natural to follow. His photography is visually voluptuous. Each photograph exudes a subtle yet fierce conversation between form and light. His talent evokes the soft talk of strange angles of our nature; one would think he was born with a lens in his retina and aperture in his heart. A composed surrealist, he illuminates the unexpected and unleashes the constantly brewing potential for the surreal. If one were to attempt to detain him in a style it would be ‘animated motion’. Even if his subjects are floating between the tarmac and the sky, they are rhythmically alive, far from a dusty portrait of a contrived moment trying desperately to transcend space and time. Journalistically, his mission to capture that beat is also present. He glorifies the ordinary by photographing the nuance of a situation. Somehow his visuals show us those moments that we only see out the corner of our eyes.
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the spare tools of society
the spare tools of society
the spare tools of society
the spare tools of society
dope, glue and reading lessons
dope, glue and reading lessons
dope, glue and reading lessons
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